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Generally poor areas where vanquished Indians were eventually confined under federal control.
What are reservations?
100
Federal law that offered generous land opportunities to poorer farmers but also provided the unscrupulous with opportunities for hoaxes and fraud.
What is the Homestead Act?
100

The principle of American foreign policy warning European nations against any intervention in the Western hemisphere.

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

100
Valuable naval base acquired by the United States from the Hawaiian government in 1887.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
Term for the sensationalistic and jingoistic pro-war journalism practiced by Hearst and Pulitzer.
What is yellow journalism?
200
Indian religious movement, originating out of the sacred Sun Dance, that the federal government attempted to stamp out in 1890.
What is the Ghost Dance?
200

First organization to attempt to provide services and opportunities for Western farmers.

What is the Grange?

200
American battleship sent on a "friendly" visit to Cuba that ended in disaster and war.
What is the Maine?
200

Leader of a rebellion that demonstrated the need for a strong federal government including a constitution.

Who is Daniel Shays?

200
Proverbial symbol of Roosevelt's belief that presidents should engage in diplomacy but also maintain a strong military readiness to back up their policy.
What is the "big stick?"
300
Federal law that attempted to dissolve tribal landholding and establish Indians as individual farmers.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
300

Political party that emerged in the 1890s to express rural grievances and mount major attacks on the Democrats and Republicans.

What is the Populist party?

300

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine encouraging colonists to fight for independence.

What is Common Sense?

300

Supreme Court case that integrated schools.

What is Brown v. the Board of Education?

300

Questionable extension of the Monroe Doctrine that declared an American right to intervene in Latin American nations under certain circumstances.

What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

400

Supreme Court cases that decided "judicial review."

What is Marbury v. Madison?

400
American-imposed restriction written into the constitution of Cuba that guaranteed American naval bases on the island and declared that the United States had the right to intervene in Cuba.
What is the Platt Ammendment?
400

Colorful volunteer regiment of the Spanish-American War led by a militarily inexperienced but politically influential colonel.

Who are the Rough Riders?

400

Supreme Court case that legalized segregation.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

400

Famous speech delivered by John Winthrop illustrating the significance of Boston as a model of piety.

What is "City on a Hill"?

500

1st battle of the Civil War.

What is Fort Sumter?

500
Large U.S. naval force sent on a peaceful but highly visible voyage to Japan and else where in 1907.
What is the Great White Fleet?
500

Philanthropist who authored "The Gospel of Wealth"?

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

500

Executive order that mandated Japanese internment camps.

What is 9066?

500

Agency that assisted newly freed slaves with education, clothing, and "protection."

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?