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Exam # 9
America Land I Love Exam
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History
7th Grade
03/21/2012

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Speak Softly and carry a big stick
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Open Door Policy
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Promoted free trade in China
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The Grange
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A national organization of farm familes
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Homestead Act
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Opened the Great Plains for settlement
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George Custer
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Killed at the battle of Little Bighorn
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Alvin York
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Best-known hero of WW I
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Interstate Commerce Act
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regulated railroads
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Doughboys
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Nickname for American infantryman in WW I
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the Maine
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US battleship blew up in harbor Cuba
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WW I
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1914-1918
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Thomas A. Edison
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invented the light bulb
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Pendleton Act
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Examinations provided for govt. jobs
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Calvin Coolidge
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His father performed his inauguration
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Zimmerman Note
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promised Mexico land if they helped Germany in WW I
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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to insure product safety and quality
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Model T
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First auto made on an assembly line
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Fanny Crosby
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Blind composer wrote many famous hymns
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Titanic
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Ocean liner "unsinkable" sunk after hitting a iceberg.
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Moody Bible Institute
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Founded by D.L.Moody in Chicago
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Grover Cleveland
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First president to serve 2 consecutive terms
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Central Powers
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Germany, Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary
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James Whitcomb Riley
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Most popular US poet in late 19th Century
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Lyman Stewart
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Founded Union Oil Co.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Wrote a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
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James Garfield
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his death led to the Pendleton Civil Service Act
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Woodrow Wilson
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President during WW I
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Charles Lindbergh
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the Lone Eagle (nickname) made first solo, nonstop flight across Atlantic
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Won a Nobel Prize for helping to end the Russo-Japanese War.
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Robert La Follette (progressive Party)
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Senator known as Battlin' BOb
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Archduke Ferdinand
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His assassination sparked WWI
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Pres. William McKinley
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Assassinated and his VP Teddy Roosevelt became Pres.
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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A defeat for evolutionists
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Free Silver Policy
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The Populist Party sponsored this policy
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The Brooklyn Bridge
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Designed and built by Roeblings
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James Garfield
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His death led to the Pendleton Civil Service Act
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The Phillippines
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purchased by US for $20 million in 1898
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Dr. Walter Reed Carlos Finley
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Worked to control yellow fever
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General Pershing
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Led American expedition force WW I
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16th amendment
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made income tax legal
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18th amendment
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prohibited sale and consumption of alcohol
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D.L.Moody
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evangelist former shoe salesman
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Spanish-American War
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conflict that began in Cuba
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Led the Rough Riders
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Louis Sullivan
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architect
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Geronimo
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Indian chief of the Apache Indian tribe
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Teapot Dome scandal
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Affected Warren Harding's presidency
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Delome Letter
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Written by Spanish ambassador infuriated the American people
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Karl Marx
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Father of modern socialism
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George Washington Carver
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developed hundreds of uses for the peanut
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William Gorgas
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Helped rid the Panama Canal Zone of infectious diseases
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Sod houses
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Types of homes on the prairie
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Ira Sankey
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D.L.Moody's song leader
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Venezuelan Boundary Dispute
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the US determined to enforce the Monroe Doctrine w/o Britian's help.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Wealthy philanthropist had a steel company
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White Fleet
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sent by Pres.Theodore Roosevelt to display our military might and show goodwill
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