founding docs
mayflower compact
created laws for Mayflower Pilgrims and non-Pilgrims alike for the good of their new colony.
tenement housing
single-family buildings divided into multiple living spaces.
nuclear race
an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.
age of highway act
authorized the building of highways throughout the nation
new conservatism
Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology, which seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.
enlightenment
the state of having knowledge or understanding.
haymarket riot
violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886
berlin wall /airlift
Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin.
rust belt /sun belt
a region in the Midwest and Northeast where factory production was concentrated during the 1940s and 50s, however, by the 1980s many of these factories were abandoned and left to rust.
war on terror
The Global War on Terror is an international, American-led military campaign launched following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
natural rights
the rights given to all humans, simply for the sake of being human.
great migration
the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970.
blacklisting
a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted
civil disobedience
refusing to obey a law, a regulation or a power judged unjust in a peaceful manner.
september 11, 2001
series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States
anti-federalists
a person who opposed the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
sharecropping
a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
vietnam
a country in Southeast Asia, comprising the former states of Annam, Tonkin, and Cochinchina
voting rights act of 1965
outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting
offshoring / outsourcing
when an organization recruits a third party supplier to conduct operations from an outside country.
magna carta
the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.
political machines
A political machine is a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives—money, political jobs—and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activity.
McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.
immigration act of 1965
abolished quotas, opening the doors to "those who can contribute most to this country – to its growth, to its strength, to its spirit."
usa patriot act of 2001
The Patriot Act modernized our ability to monitor criminal and terrorist communications by applying our wiretap laws to new technologies such as cell phones and e-mail without modifying or reducing the legal and constitutional restraints applicable to those tools.