Forms of Government
High Mileage Words
Important Documents
Visuals & Cartoons
US History
100
a form of democracy where people decide on policy initiatives themselves
Direct Democracy
100
to study or examine something in detail, in order to discover more about it
Analyze
100
"The law of the land" for the United States, the document that replaced the Articles of Confederation
U.S. Constitution
100
Primary Source and/or March on Washington 1963
100
war fought between the north and the south between 1861 and 1865
Civil War
200
a system in which people elect representatives to make decisions and create policies
Representative Democracy
200
to consider to be the same
Equate
200
An agreement between the original 13 states of the US that served as the first constitution, that focused on the preservation of state independence.
Articles of Confederation
200
19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
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Manifest Destiny
300
Liliʻuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii and composer of songs such as "Aloha Oe' is an example of what kind of democracy?
Monarchy
300
to make laws
Legislate
300
Explanation presented by the thirteen colonies as to why they regarded themselves as independent sovereign states no longer under British rule
Declaration of Independence
300
late 19th and early 20th century state and local statues that legalized racial segregation and were enacted after the Civil War, the laws denied equal opportunity to African Americans
Jim Crow Laws
400
the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom, the rejection of political plurality
Authoritarianism
400
to take or receive from a source; to obtain through reasoning
Derive
400
Peace treaty that brought WWI to an end and was signed in 1919
Treaty of Versailles
400
Imperialism
400
the transition to new manufacturing process in Europe and the United States from 1760 to 1840
Industrial Revolution
500
far-right authoritarian ultranationalism that is characterized by the forceful suppression of opposition and dictatorial power
Fascism
500
1) a relationship from one set (called the domain) to another set (called the range) that assigns to each element of the domain exactly one element range. 2) the action or actions that an item is designed to perform
Function
500
series of programs, public work projects, financial reform, ad regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939
The New Deal
500
Act of 1935 enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that created the Social Security Program as well as insurance against unemployment
Social Security Act