Thinking Like Historian
Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, and Speech
What is the First Amendment?
Founded the light bulb
Inventor/businessman
Born 1847
Who is Thomas Edison?
Led by christian women and men
Led to 18th amendment
Caused speakeasies to begin
What is the Temperance Movement?
U.S. would remain free from other nations
Neutrality
1800ś
What is isolationism?
1920
Men bribing Fall to access oil
Two men arrested and killed
Doheney and Sinclair
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Branch that evaluates Laws.
Article III
Supreme Court
What is the Judicial Branch?
Linked East to West
California to Nebraska
Helped transport more efficiently
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Little or no legit articles
¨Clickbait¨
Fake news to increase sales
What is Yellow Journalism?
Created by United States after Hawaii Annexation
1898
Helped expansion of U.S
Military Base
What is Pearl Harbor?
Fear of communists overthrowing the government
1919-1920
What is the Red Scare?
First Major US Document.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Adopted July 4th, 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Federal Land grant
1862
People moving West for more job opportunity
What is the Homestead Act
Targeted African-Americans, Catholics, Jews, and foreigners
Committed vigilante acts of violence
Secret Society
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Says Cuba is liberated from Spanish control
U.S is allowed to maintain military base in Cuba
Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico become U.S. territories
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Created out of fear of communism
Limited people from Southern and Eastern Europe
Reduced by 3%
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
Contains Amendments and Articles
¨We the people¨
September 17, 1787
Written by James Madison
What is the U.S Constitution?
Caused overcrowded cities
People moving from Rural areas to cities
Caused from industrialization
What is urbanization?
Person who acts to improve society
Harriet Tubman
Increased examination to life
What is a Reformer?
1899
All nations have equal trade with China
Statement of principals by United States
What is the Open Door Policy?
Cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater
Creation of Jazz music
1918
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Universal Male Suffrage
What is the 15th Amendment?
Assassinated in 1881 by Charles Guiteau
Born 1831
20th President
Civil social reforms
President Garfield
Jane Addams Co-founded
Settlement house to help teach immigrants
Helped assimilate to American lifestyle
Chicago, IL
What is the Hull House?
One of the causes of Spanish-American War
Caused negotiations between Spain and U.S.
Published by Hearst in the New York Journal
Called McKinley ¨weak¨
Feb 9, 1898
What is the De Lome letter?
Study of human improvement
Favorable traits were reproduced
Got rid of ¨imperfects¨
What is eugenics?