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Systems used to move water through crops.
Irrigation
Idea that the US had a God-given duty to expand westward and to even project its influence across the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
National focus on building a strong military and in using that military to intimidate other countries.
Militarism
Raft of legislation put forward by the FRD administration meant to help people during the Great Depression.
The New Deal
War fought in Afghanistan and in Iraq after the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
The Global War on Terror
Ancient civilization in Africa that used irrigation and regular flooding of the Nile River to grow crops.
Idea that colonies existed to supply raw materials to their mother country and to be a market for the mother country to sell its finished goods.
Mercantilism
Journalists who wrote stories exposing corruption in the 19th century.
Muckrakers
President during the US Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln (R)
Source used by historians taken directly from the time period of the historical event, like a letter, a diary, a newspaper article.
Primary Source
Government policy of staying out of international conflicts.
Isolationism
Region including Mexico and Central America.
Mesoamerica
Love of one's country.
Patriotism
President during the first half of WW II.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source used by historians produced long after the historical event, like a book written by another historian.
Secondary Source
Political compromise that allowed slave states to expand across the South and for free states to expand in the North.
Missouri Compromise
Phrase used to identify the connections between manufacturers in Europe, slave traders in Africa, and plantation owners in the Americas.
Triangle Trade
Those peoples that lived in the Americas before European colonialization.
Native Americans
President during the last half the WW II.
Harry S. Truman
Period in the early 1900's where politicians and social activist called for the use of government force to enact laws and regulations meant to enhance the lives of the poor.
The Progressive Era
Law that overturned the Missouri Compromise and allowed any state to vote on whether to be a slave state or a free state.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
That part of the Triangle Trade that saw slaves shipped from Africa to the Americas.
The Middle Passage
New Jersey is named after what place in England?
Jersey
War fought in Iraq (1990 - 1991), successfully forced Iraqi troops to leave Kuwait after Iraq had invaded Kuwait over a border dispute.
The Persian Gulf War
System of government where minority rights are protected by a written constitution.
Republic