Founding Documents
This document introduced ideas like unalienable rights, consent of the governed, and equality of rights for all citizens.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This shift occurred as Americans moved from farms to factory jobs, leading to the growth of cities and overcrowded living conditions.
What is industrialization (or the shift from agrarian to industrial society)?
These laws were passed to keep the United States out of foreign conflicts during the 1930s.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
This Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This government agency was created after 9/11 to improve airport and transportation security.
What is the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)?
This early law set precedents like public education, religious freedom, trial by jury, and banned slavery in new territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This group used tactics like strikes, boycotts, and collective bargaining to improve wages and working conditions
What are labor unions (organized labor)?
This surprise attack in 1941 ended U.S. isolationism and brought America into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This major protest event in 1963 featured Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This U.S. detention facility, established after 9/11 in Cuba, became controversial for holding suspected terrorists without trial and raising concerns about civil liberties.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
This principle divides power between the national government and the states.
What is federalism?
This major migration saw African Americans move north to escape segregation and seek better economic opportunities.
What is the Great Migration?
This government agency helped shift the U.S. economy from peacetime production to wartime production during WWII.
What is the War Production Board?
This law eliminated national origin quotas and increased immigration from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
What is the Immigration Act of 1965?
This law, passed shortly after 9/11, expanded the government’s ability to monitor and investigate suspected terrorists.
What is the Patriot Act?
These two groups debated ratification of the Constitution, with one supporting a strong central government and the other fearing it.
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This Cold War policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
What is containment?
This organization worked to improve conditions for migrant farm workers, especially Mexican Americans.
What is the United Farm Workers (UFW)?
This global conflict increased U.S. military spending and involvement in the Middle East after 2001.
What is the War on Terror?/9/11
This part of the Constitution protects freedoms such as speech, religion, and press, and ensures due process of law.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union closest to nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This environmental agency was created in response to growing concerns about pollution and environmental protection.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This global trend has led to increased international trade, transnational businesses, and greater economic competition.
What is globalization?