Founding Documents
This document announced the American people's decision to free ourselves from England
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This trend saw an increase in cities populations, resulting in overcrowding and poor living conditions
What is urbanization?
Antitrust laws were created to prevent the formation of this
What is a monopoly?
This acronym describes the four primary causes of World War I
What is M.A.I.N.?
In response to the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt did this to the size and power of the government
What is increase?
This is part of the Constitution lists the rights/freedoms of the people who live in this country
What is the Bill of Rights?
This Supreme Court decision legalized segregation and discrimination, so long as accommodations were "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This term describes the right to vote, gained by women with the 19th amendment
What is suffrage?
This term describes the religious justification for westward (and eventually international) expansion
What is Manifest Destiny?
This series of programs saw the first child labor laws, minimum wage laws, and the hiring of millions of out of work Americans to build infrastructure
What is the New Deal?
These include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (or property)
What are natural rights?
Examples include the McCormick reaper, the thresher, and the steel plow
What new inventions improved agricultural productivity during the Industrial Revolution?
This term described journalists who investigated wrongdoings by the government and business leaders
What is a muckraker?
This term describes the political tendency to avoid international conflicts, instead focusing on domestic issues
What is isolationism?
This was the year of Wall Street's "Great Crash" which started the Great Depression
What is 1929?
They favored that state-friendly Articles of Confederation over the Constitution
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This was made possible through improved productivity in factories thanks to assembly lines and advancing technology
What is mass production?
This book, written by Upton Sinclair, inspired the creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
What is the Jungle?
This Pacific nation was taken by the U.S. during the Spanish-American War, held as a colony until 1946, and is now the 13th largest country on earth
What is the Philippines?
This term describes the practice of buying overvalued stock believing the price will continue to rise, a direct cause of the Great Depression
What is speculation/overspeculation?
This measure provided the basis for the governance of Ohio when it first joined the union
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1783?
The mass movement of Black Americans from the southeast to northern and western cities
What is the Great Migration?
Unions were opposed this French-named economic philosophy, in which the government does not regulate businesses
What is laissez-faire?
Although it was first proposed by President Woodrow Wilson, the United States refused to join this organization, causing it to be infamously weak
What is the League of Nations?
This term describes the practice of buying stock "on credit" using borrowed money, a direct cause of the Great Depression
What is margin buying?