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| to leave one's homeland to live elsewhere |
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| a minority that speaks a different language or follows different customs than the majority of people in a country. |
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| cramped quaters on a ship's lower decks for passengers paying the lowest fares. |
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| the place in new york harbor where immigrants were processed |
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| the name of the immigrant processing center on the West Coasts in San Francisco. |
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| to absorb a group into te culture of a larger population |
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| a person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants |
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| huge wealth of few contrasted with horrivle poverty |
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| a building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety |
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| poor, crowded, and run-down urban neighborhoods |
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| residental areas outside of the city |
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| institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care, libraries, and classes in English |
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| an act that gace states federal land that could be used for education |
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| the buildings that were established as a result of the Morrill Act |
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| the leading spokesperson for progressive education, criticized schools for overemphasing memorization of information |
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| Train teachers and to provide practical education for African Americans |
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| a person who created the Tuskegee Institute |
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| a famous steel tycoon who donated over W$30 million to build more than 2,000 libraries in the U.S |
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| writing which exaggerats sensational, dramatic, and gruesome events to attract readers, named for stories that were popular during the late 1800 |
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| people in the United States that were alarmed by the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few |
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rewarding political supporters with jobs and favors |
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| a combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce competition |
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| first federal law to control trusts and monopolies |
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| a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society |
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| allowed the government to enter business and inspect products |
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| It required accurate labeling of food and medicine banning the sale of harmful food |
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| provide for the direct election of senators |
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| as more immigrants settled in the United States, more Americans became bitter, and this group for terroizing African Americans during Reconstruction was reborn in 1915 |
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| people who fought for a woman's right to vote |
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| the goal of the women's rights movement was reached when this amendment was passed |
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| the passage of laws to prohibit the production and sale of alcohol |
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| Constitutional Amendment made alcohol illegal in the United States |
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| the protection and preservation of natural resources |
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| immigrants arriving in the United States often had to face unequal treatment because of race, religion, ethnic backgrounds, and/or place of birth |
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| supreme court case made segregation in the United States legal |
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| the name of the Suffragist who protested in front of the White House and went on a hunger strike in jail to gain National Attention for her cause |
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| Theodore Roosevelt became President after this president was assassinated at the World's fair |
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| became the president after President McKinley. He was called a trustbuster, he promised to offer people a square deal, and introduced the U.S Forest Service. |
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| president who created the Fourteen Points Plan |
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| a national policy of avoiding involvement in World affairs |
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| a policy that calls for expanding a nation's boundaries |
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| the actions used one nation to exercise political or economic control over smaller or weaker nations |
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| took powers that the American sugar planters had held. In response, the white planters overthrew her |
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| bringing an area under the control of a larger country |
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| section of a country where one foreign nation enjoys special rights and powers |
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| a policy that allowed each foreign nation in China to trade freely in the other nations ' spheres of influence |
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| a secret material arts group, known as the Boxers wanted to rid China of foreign devils |
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| the name of the U.S battleshop that was blown up in Havana Harbor, sparking the start of the Spanish-American War |
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| an assorted group of former cowhands and college students |
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| the place where rough riders led by Teddy Roosevelt achieve victory |
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| U.S had the right to interfere with Latin American affairs whenever nations seemed unstable |
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| treaty that ended it the Spanish American war |
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| a policy of joining business interests of a country with its diplomatic interests abroad and it was very successful |
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| the Mexian rebel who invaded New Mexico and killed 18 Americans |
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| loyalty to a nation and promotion of its interests above all others |
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| a buildup of military strength within a country |
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| defense agreements among nations |
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| was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip |
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| the Allies- Great Britain, France, and Russia |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungry, and the Ottoman Empire |
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| fighting in dug in trenches with No Man's Land between both sides |
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| Germans invented the submarine |
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| note intercepted by U.S ; Germany asks Mexico tot invade the U.S and gets money for it |
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| act passed by Congress which made the army larger |
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| ideas or information designed and spread to influence opinion |
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| navy destroyers escorted merchant ships to Europe |
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| American Expeditionary Force |
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| American troops in Europe |
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| a temporary peace agreement to end fighting |
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| the day when World War I was over and it is now Veterans Day in the United States |
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| gathering of resources and the preparation for war |
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| goal was to preserve peace and prevent future wars |
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| the treaty that Germany and the Allies signed in June 1919 |
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| time when government went after communist aka. "Reds" and others with radical views |
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| person who believes that there should be no government |
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| a president who promised a return to normalcy |
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| Harding gave many important jobs to friends and political supporters |
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| Albert Fall, Harding's secretary of the interior, secretly leased government oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to the owners of two oil companies |
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| won reelection in 1924. His administration raised tariffs to protect American buisnesses and overturned laws regulating child labor and wages for women |
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| a downward turn in business ativity |
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| used by many businesses adopted mass production methods |
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| In an attempt to improve relations with employees, employers began welfare capitalism |
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| a system of paying for goods in which customers promise to pay small, regular amounts over a period of time |
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| types of communication that reach large numbers of people, such as newspapers, radio, and television |
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| Americans danced to a new type of music called jazz |
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| the movement tat was estalbished to rid the United States of Alcohol |
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| the nationwide ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor in the U.S that went into effect when the 18th Amendment was ratified |
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clubs that were hidden from view and could be entered only by saying a password |
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| During the sweltering summer of 1925, the nation followed the day-to-day developments in the Scopes Trial with great interest |
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| a place where shares in its business which often carry voting power |
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| to buy stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest |
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| the time in the 1930s which the United States went into a severe economic state |
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| Some reffered bitterly to the shanty town as Hooverviles because of President Hoover's failure to act |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| Defeated President Herbert Hoover a landslide victory and was a reformer. Promised Americans a "New Deal" |
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| a special session of Congress that dealt with problems of the Depression |
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| the name given to the new laws aimed at relieving the Depression, which were passed by Congress during the Hundred Days and the months that followed |
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the name given to the area of the Southern Great Plains severely damaged by droughts and dust storms during the 1930s |
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| formed by Germany, Itay, and Japan |
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| a leader who rules with total authority, often in a cruel or brutal manner |
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| became president after President FDR |
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| a political system, headed by a dictator, that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition |
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| In 1921 Hitler became chairman of the National Socialist German Workers' Party |
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| State that a political system in which the government suppresses all opposition and controls most aspects of people's lives |
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hostility toward or discrimination against Jews |
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| accepting demands in order to avoid conflict |
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| The British people endured, however, in part because of the inspiration of Prime Minister Winston Churchill |
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| In the late 1920s, he rose to power as the Communit leader of the Soviet Union |
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| In the late 1920s, he achieved wide popularity in Germany |
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| rose to power by appealing to the resentment of many Italians who felt they had not won enough in the Versailles Treaty |
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| the deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group |
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| The name given to the mass slughter of Jews and other groups by the Nazis during World War I |
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