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The Compromise of 1850   show
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show The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.  
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The Gold Rush   show
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Monroe Doctrine   show
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show The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.  
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show The original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.  
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show A period when children worked in factories and poverty was very high  
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show Farm Life was hard in the 1920s because there wasn't any electricity or indoor plumbing. Everything was done manually.  
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show A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.  
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show Spanned the final three decades of the nineteenth century, was one of the most dynamic, contentious, and volatile periods in American history.  
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show The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada.  
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Trail of Tears   show
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show Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York City political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789, as the Tammany Society.  
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Political corruption of the 1800s   show
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Americanization movement   show
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show The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".  
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Age of Enlightenment   show
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show The process in which a society or country (or world) transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services.  
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show The "Fourteen Points" was a statement given on January 8, 1918 by United States President Woodrow Wilson declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe.  
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Great Compromise   show
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Abraham Lincoln   show
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show John Locke FRS, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism"  
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show A charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede.  
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show Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States.  
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show The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages.  
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19th Amendment   show
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21st Amendment   show
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show The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764.  
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show An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.  
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Intolerable Acts   show
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Boston Tea Party   show
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show A fundamental principle of American government, guaranteed by the Constitution, whereby each branch of the government  
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Federal vs. State Powers   show
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Federalism   show
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show The first world war began in August 1914. It was directly triggered by the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand and his wife, on 28th June 1914 by Bosnian revolutionary, Gavrilo Princip.  
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show A movement for reform that occurred roughly between 1900 and 1920. Progressives typically held that irresponsible actions by the rich were corrupting both public and private life.  
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show Hamilton believed that the future of the country lie in the cities and Jefferson believed that the future of the country lie in the... countryside... farming and what not.  
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Allied Powers of WWI   show
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show Nationwide prohibition did not begin in the United States until 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect, and was repealed in 1933  
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Robert E. Lee   show
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