Founding Docs
The formal document by which the 13 American colonies announced their separation from Britain
What is The Declaration of Independence?
A temporary, marked increase in the birth rate.
What is baby boom?
Boat that was blown up and started the Spanish American war.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
Harmful impacts of human activities—such as industrialization, urbanization, and natural resource extraction—on the natural world, prompting public concern and government regulation, especially following the rise of the environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s.
What is Environmental Issues?
Low-cost, often run-down and overcrowded apartment buildings.
What is tenement housing?
85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in 1787–1788, aimed at persuading New Yorkers to ratify the new US Constitution.
What is The Federalist Papers?
A landmark law signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower that authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile, nationwide network of high-speed, limited-access highways, funded 90% by the federal government through a new Highway Trust Fund to improve national defense, economic growth, and transportation efficiency.
What is interstate highway act?
A form of international diplomacy where peaceful negotiations are backed by the implicit or explicit threat of powerful military action.
What is Big Stick Policy?
19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes to carry out suicide attacks against the United States, crashing planes into New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people and fundamentally altering American foreign and domestic policy.
What is September 11, 2001?
A widespread early 20th-century social and political reform movement that harnessed federal, state, and local government action to end political corruption, regulate big business, improve working conditions, and advance the public good.
What is progressive movement?
Proponents of a strong, centralized national government in the early United States, advocating for the ratification of the Constitution.
What is Federalists?
An ambitious set of domestic programs and legislation enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson between 1964 and 1968, intended to eliminate poverty, reduce racial injustice, and improve quality of life through expanded federal social welfare programs.
What is LBJ's great society
A United States foreign policy doctrine aimed at improving relations with Latin America by replacing military interventionism with non-interference, reciprocal trade, and mutual cooperation.
What is good neighbor policy?
A political movement that originated in the 1970s among former liberals disillusioned with the Left, characterized by support for free-market capitalism and an assertive, interventionist foreign policy aimed at promoting American democratic values abroad.
What is new conservatism?
The process by which rural areas turn into urban ones, driven by population shifts to cities, resulting in the expansion of towns, increased population density, and changing social behaviors.
What is urbanization?
A landmark legislation that established a structured government for the Northwest Territory, prohibited slavery, guaranteed civil liberties, and created a framework for admitting new states into the Union on equal footing with the original 13 colonies.
What is The Northwest Ordinance?
The active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government, typically done through nonviolent means to force concessions or protest perceived injustice.
What is civil disobedience?
The first intergovernmental organization aimed at maintaining world peace through collective security, disarmament, and negotiation.
Global, U.S.-led military and intelligence campaign launched after the September 11, 2001, attacks, aiming to dismantle extremist organizations like al-Qaeda and eliminate state sponsors of terrorism.
What is war on terror?
The mass relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North, Midwest, and West between roughly 1916 and 1970 to escape racial violence, segregation, and limited economic opportunities.
What is great migration?
The first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, signed by 41 adult male passengers on November 11, 1620, to establish a "civil body politic" and create fair laws for the general good of the new settlement.
What is The Mayflower Compact?
The rapid expansion of residential, low-density communities on the outskirts of metropolitan areas, driven by population shifts away from city centers in search of more space, affordability, and a commuter-oriented lifestyle.
What is growth of the suburbs?
Brief conflict between the United States and Spain.
What is the Spanish-American war?
The process of increasing interconnectedness and interdependence among countries, driven by the cross-border flow of goods, services, capital, people, and technology.
What is Globalization?
Four U.S. constitutional changes ratified between 1913 and 1920 that expanded democracy, increased government regulation of the economy, and addressed social ills, including federal income tax, direct election of senators, Prohibition, and women's suffrage.
What is Progressive Amendments?