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03/17/2010

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Voucher
Definition
a bond that can be used only on what is allowed
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Peonage
Definition
labor to pay off dues
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Caudillos
Definition
dictators
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Juan Vicente Gomez
Definition
a dictator of Venezuala
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Bayonet
Definition
a daggerlike steel weapon attached to guns to stab people
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Perishable
Definition
when it can decay or be ruined
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
a document written for the US to have interference with Latin America
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exile
Definition
a person banished from their homoeland
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Jose Marti
Definition
a writter that fought for cuban independence
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brutality
Definition
being cruel or rude
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imperial
Definition
having to do with empires
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regard
Definition
to have feelings for
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colossus
Definition
a statue of hellios or of having a huge size
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transcontinental
Definition
passing or going threw an entire area
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gratitude
Definition
to be thankful
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malaria
Definition
a type of disease that consists of high fevers sweating and chills
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yellow fever
Definition
a disease that hurts the lungs
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bubonic plague
Definition
a disease passed on from fleas to rats that infected people and made them really sick by weakness and fevers
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panama canal
Definition
usa massive waterway in panama
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tollgate
Definition
a place where money is needed to enter
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foothold
Definition
a place where someone can stand or sit safely
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corollary
Definition
an extension
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roosevelt corollary
Definition
an international police power in the western hemisphere
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dimension
Definition
a piece of property in a givin space
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excavation
Definition
a hole that people are working on
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mules
Definition
electric locomotives that were used to guide ships
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anglos
Definition
english speaking colonists
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ousted
Definition
removed from placement or rank
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annexed
Definition
to add to something to make better
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valiantly
Definition
to be brave or couragous
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creole
Definition
a  person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
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liberal
Definition
favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
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la reforma
Definition
a movement made by juarez to redisrtibute the land.
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sovereign
Definition
a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler
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conservations
Definition
the act of saving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation
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archduke
Definition
a title of the sovereign princes of the former ruling house of Austria.
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siege
Definition
to be isolated because of a group of people
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canididacy
Definition
a person who seeks an office
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initiated
Definition
to begin, set going, or originate
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