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The belief that U.S. settlers in the 1800s were destined to settle across North America.
What was Manifest Destiny?
monopolist controlled the steel industry
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Fear that communists might seize power in the United States government.
What is the Red Scare?
The actions used by one nation to exercise political or economic control over a smaller or weaker nation
What is Imperialism?
used to connect mines in the west to factories in the east
What is railroads?
the leader of Tammany Hall, the most infamous political machine in the late 19th century
Who was William "Boss" Tweed?
The address that stated the U.S. would intervene in Latin American affairs when necessary to maintain economic and political stability.
What is the Roosevelt Correlary?
event resulted in public outrage and changed the attitudes of Americans toward World War I
What is the Sinking of the Lusitania?
The right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office
What is recall?
amendment declared the right to vote cannot be denied to anyone based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th?
immigrants from Europe pass through to get to America
What was Ellis Island?
The federal government could now collect a graduated income tax
What is the 16th amendment?
This person ruled in Russia in 1917 and pulled them out of the war. He stabled a communist government.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
The belief that no matter what a person’s background is, the person can still become successful through effort.
What is individualism?
A piece of US public land acquired by filing a record and living on and cultivating it.
What is a homestead?
This act gave the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific permission to build a transcontinental railroad.
What was the Pacific Railway Act?
This man created the Progressive Party in order to run for president in 1912
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Killed Franz Ferdinand
Who was Garvilo Princip?
A plot of land assigned to an individual or a family for cultivation.
What is allotment?
Who was James Polk?
This group opposed strikes in favor of boycotts and arbitration.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Women who sacrificed herself by running onto the track causing a horse to run her over
Who was Emily Davidson?
James J Braddock nickname
What is the Bulldog of Bergen?
Before the Civil War, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there.
What is Popular sovereignty?