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| Incident between colonist and British soldiers that led to the deaths of five colonists | Boston Massacre
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| Resulted in a weak government unable to handle economic problems | Articles of Confederation
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| Many settlers took this route to the western territory | Oregon Trail
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| process by which Congress can remove a president from office | impeachment
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| his troops led the siege on an old mission church that was the stronghold of the Texas resistance known as the Alamo | Santa Anna
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| Lincoln's speech at the 1963 cemetery dedication of a battlefield in Pennsylvania | Gettysburg Address
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| network to help escaped slaves move northwards to freedom | underground railroad
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| the Emancipation Proclamation banned this practice | slavery
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| President of the Confederacy during the Civil War | Jefferson Davis
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| man who killed President Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth
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| Went to California in search of gold | Forty-niners
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| Author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson
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| leader of the Confederate army during the Civil War | Robert E Lee
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| all powers not specifically granted to the federal government nor denied to the states | reserved powers
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| president of the United States during the Civil War | Abraham Lincoln
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| one of the richest silver veins located in Carson River Valley | Comstock Lode
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| African American soldiers in the West | Buffalo Soldiers
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| George Armstrong Custer led his troops to destruction at this battle | Battle of Little Big Horn
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| women, children and men worked long hours | ranch life
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| purchased Alaska(Person) | William H. Seward
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| Crude with few comforts | mining camps
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| Mercury to extract silver from ore | patio process
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| cattle that can travel long distances on little water | Texas Longhorns
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| ended because of overgrazing, barbed wire and bad weather | cattle boom
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| marked the end of the Indian wars on the Great Plains | Wounded Knee Massacre
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| leaders of political party machines | party bosses
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| crossed picket lines to stop a strike | strike breakers
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| uses dots and dashes to communicate | telegraph
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| spending money to show off wealth | conspicuous consumption
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| process to make steel cheaper and faster | Bessemer
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| Jane Addams settlement house | Hull House
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| the belief that corruption lurked below the surface of society | gilded age
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| skyscrapers and mass transit led to an expansion of ___ | urban growth
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| new stores in the 1800's that sold many types of products | department stores
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| buildings where large numbers of people lived in unsanitary conditions | tenements
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| urban reform movement that addressed social problems | Progressive
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| some of the reforms worked on by this movement included low wages, long hours, child labor and unsafe working conditions | progressive issues
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| woman who became famous with her work for the poor | Jane Addams
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| reform minded journalists | Muckrakers
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| founded to further racial justice | NAACP
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| many reformers viewed this as the root to all social problems | alcohol
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| brought the need for reform into the public eye | Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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| seeing the need to conservation TR called on Congress to establish | national parks
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| protected consumers from food industry abuses | Pure Food and Drug Act
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| granted women full voting rights | 19th Amendment
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| Teddy Roosevelt's efforts to regulate corporations | trust-busting
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| the first movie to tell a story | The Great Train Robbery
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| was declared to protect US investments in Cuba,due to public pressure and to help Cuba overthrow Spanish Rule | Spanish American War
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| annexation of this region was due to renewed interest overseas, it's strategic location | Hawaii
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| was made possible in part because the US immediately recognized Panama as an independent nation/increased US interests in Latin America | Panama Canal
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| gave US control of all Spanish colonies in the Pacific and Cuba it's freedom | Treaty ending the Spanish American War
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| stated that China would remain open to all nations | Open Door policy
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| was fueled by new overseas markets for domestic goods | Quest for Empire
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| Us gains Spain's overseas holdings and Cuba gains independence | after effects of the Spanish American War
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| glorification of armed strength | militarism
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| heart of Wilson's 14 points | League of Nations
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| US senators who rejected the Treaty of Versailles | Irreconcilables
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| area of battle zone separating trenches | No Mans land
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| safe transportation of US soldiers and goods to Europe by ship | convoy system
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| outlawed opposition to the draft | Espionage and Sedition Acts
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| movement of African Americans north to fill in wartime jobs | Great Migration
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| American were encouraged to support the war by the ___ | Committee on Public Information
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| form of the flu that killed over 20 million world wide | Great Influenza Epidemic
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| characterized by dangerously unsanitary conditions | trench warfare
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| new invention of WWI | tanks
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| disease caused by having your feet exposed to water for extended period of time | trench foot
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| year that WWI started in Europe | 1914
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| year US entered WWI | 1917
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| after WWI Germany faced this economic problem due to the overprinting of money to pay off debts | inflation
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| first nation to attack another during WWI | Germany
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| the side the US joined in the war (WWI) | Allies
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| the side that won the war (WWI) | Allied Powers
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| unrestricted submarine warfare, the sinking of merchant and passenger ships and the Zimmerman note, from Germany to Mexico, asking them to invade the US were all __ | US causes for entry to WWI
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| his death was the spark that started WWI | Archduke Ferdinand
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| signed on November 11, 1918 | Armistice
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| average citizens filled in while they were striking | Boston Police Strike
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| Americans fear of Communism after WWI | Red Scare
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| showed the revival of hostility toward ethnic groups in the 1920's | revival of the KKK
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| his administration was full of conflict over scandals | Warren Harding
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| their trial showed the depth of the red scare in the US | Sacco and Vanzetti
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| during this US conducted raids, thought that communism was everywhere, and believed that a worker's revolution had arrived | Red Scare
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| rose after WWI because of cancellations of war contracts, decreased production and large numbers of people returning to home | unemployment
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| granted to Native Americans in 1924 as recognition of their support during WWI | citizenship
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| designed to limit the entry of all immigrants | Immigration Act of 1924
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| was drawn to the US by the promise of jobs (ethnic group) | Mexican immigrants
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| involved the leasing of federal oil reserves | Teapot Dome scandal
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