US History EOC Review (Early America, Gilded, Progressive.)

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." (we celebrate it every 4th of July).

• Mayflower Compact

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

What is the Constitutional principle that says that government power is limited and divided into three separate branches?

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Republicanism

• Separation of Powers

The concept that ALL people are allowed to hold many beliefs and still coexist. Regardless of your beliefs we must protect our principle.

• Autonomy

• Checks and Balances

• Cooperation

• Pluralism

Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.

• 1st Amendment

• 4th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

French philosopher who came to study democracy in America and noted that Americans follow five principles: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire.

• Billy Graham

• Alexis de Tocqueville

• Voltaire

• Thomas Jefferson

The invention that allowed stronger material/steel for buildings.

• Wind Mills

• Urbanization

• Bessemer process

• Electricity

Connected the mid-west and western United States (California and Utah). Allowed farmers access to distant markets and faster travel.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Monopoly

• Electricity

• Frontier

Total control of a product by one company, later laws were passed against them to protect consumers. AKA trusts.

• Urabinzation

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Monopolies

• Political Bosses

Fight for better working conditions, against low wages and long hours, dangerous working conditions. Usually make deals for labor workers.

• Interest Groups

• Nativism

• Frontier

• Unions/Strikes

Industrialization resulted in people moving to the cities to work in factories causing sanitation problems. Farmers moved as well.

• Frontiersmen

• Urbanization

• Americanization

• Immigration