Founding Docs
Papers that are a collection of 85 essays written to support the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, explaining the need for a strong central government.
Federalist Papers
The growth of the cities and the shift of population from rural to urban area.
Urbanization
A competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War to develop superior nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Race
The policy or belief that protects or favors the interests of native-born or established inhabitants of a country against those of immigrants.
Nativism
A global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945, involving the vast majority of the world’s countries, forming two opposing military alliance.
World War II
The supreme law of the United States, outlining the framework of government, the powers of its branches, and the rights of citizen.
US Constitution
Economic system where private individuals or businesses own captial goods.
Capitalism
The boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War ll in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Iron Curtain
A period of intense anti-communism in the U.S. history.
Red Scare
It ended World War I.
Treaty of Versailles
A theory explaining the relationship between individuals and their government.
Social Contract
The movement of about 6million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1916 and 1970.
Great Migration
A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
HUAC
A period in the 1920s when jazz music and dance emerged as a significant part of American culture.
Jazz Age
A surprise attack by Japan on December 7, 1941, that led to the United States entering World War II .
Pearl Harbors
People who were in the late 1780’s who opposed the idea of a strong federal government and ratification of the U.S. constitution.
Anti-Federalist
State and local laws enacted in the Southern United States from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.
Jim Crow laws
The practice of denying employment to individuals believed to be communists or sympathizers, particularly prevalent during the Red Scare in the mid-20th century.
Blacklisting
A series of programs and reforms enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1939 by President Franklin D.
New Deal
Vegetable gardens planted durning World War I and World War II to supplement food supplies and boost morale.
Victory Gardens
The ship that carried the Pilgrims from Englan.
May Flower
A Supreme Court case in 1896 that upheld the constitutionAkita of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
Plessy v. Ferguson
A conflict between North Korea, supported by China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea, supported by the United States and the United Nations.
Korean War
It was a ecological and human disaster in the 1930s, characterized by severe dust storms and agricultural damage in Great Plains region of the United State.
Dust Bowl
A international organization founded after World War I to provide a forum for resolving international dispute.
League of Nations