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| The movement of the people in 1892. |
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| Plan to settle the West by providing 160 acres in return for farming the land for 5 years at a profit. |
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| A huge, single-crop farm. |
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| Established the right to the federal government to supervise railroads. |
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| Made it illegal to form a trust petition. |
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| President of the American Federation Labor (AFL); led the Cigar Makers' International Union to join with other craft unions in 1886. |
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| Charles Darwin's economic theory of biological evolution. |
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| Left to escape religious persecution. |
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| The location in the New York Harbor where inspection immigration stations were moved to the U.S. |
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| Law enacted in 1882 prohibited all Chinese except students from entering the U.S. |
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| 1907-1908 agreement by the government of Japan to limit Japanese immigration to the United States. |
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| Believed in salvation through helping the poor. |
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| Homes that provided a place to stay, classes, health care and other social services founded by reformers. |
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| Controlled the activities of a political party in a city. |
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W.E.B Dubois
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| 1st African American to receive a doctorate degree from Harvard. |
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| Created the separate by equal doctrine. |
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| The ban on alcohol sales. |
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| Journalsits who exposed problems in government. |
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| A book that exposed problems in the meat packing industry. |
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| Beat Roosevelt and Taft in the New Jersey government election; enacted "New Freedom" program. |
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| The policy in which stronger nations extended their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories. |
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| Allowed equal trading rights in China. |
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| An artificial waterway cut through the Isthmus of Panama to provide a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, opened in 1914. |
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| What were some of the causes of World War I? |
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M- Militarism: Developement of armed forces.
A- Alliance System: Give security; force nations into conflicts.
I- Imperialism: Competition for colonies.
N- Nationalism: Devotion to interests, culture of one's nation. |
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| Requires all men to register for the military draft at age 18. |
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| Focused industries on war goods instead of consumer goods; prevented waste. |
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| A bond sold to the American public to help fund war. |
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| Committee on Public Information |
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Promoted (sold) the war to the American Public.
(Propaganda to sell the war) |
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| Prohibited speaking out against the government during war. |
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| Trail of a teacher who taught evolution in school. |
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| Celebration of African American cunture (music, art, writers, etc.) |
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| Name given to October 29, 1929, when stock market crashed. |
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| A period, lasting from 1929 to 1940, in which the United States economy was in severely decreasing and millions of Americans were unemployed. |
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| Paying a small amount of the price of stocks and borrowing the rest. |
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| Area in the Mid West plagued by overused, drought, and wind stormes. |
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| Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
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| An agency established as part of the second New Deal that provided the unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching the arts, and other fields. |
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