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Great White Fleet
Roosevelt Corollary
Sphere of Influence
Imperialism
A force of United States Navy ships that undertook a world cru…
extension of the Monroe Doctrine in which the right of the Uni…
Area of economic and political control exerted by one nation o…
Policy by a stronger nation to create an empire by dominating…
Great White Fleet
A force of United States Navy ships that undertook a world cru…
Roosevelt Corollary
extension of the Monroe Doctrine in which the right of the Uni…
Charles Grandison Finney
Second Great Awakening
Reform Era
Temperance Movement
Charles Grandison Finney is known as the 'Father of Modern Rev…
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival…
A. Women's rights. B. Temperance. C. Education. D. Tre…
The temperance movement was an attempt to eliminate the evils…
Charles Grandison Finney
Charles Grandison Finney is known as the 'Father of Modern Rev…
Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival…
popular sovereignty
secession
transcontinental railroad
referendum
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern r…
A state-level method of direct legislation that gives voters a…
popular sovereignty
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
secession
Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
terms
continuous body
apportioned
reapportioned
the length of time persons serve in office
name for the Senate because a portion of its members retain th…
distributed
redistributed
terms
the length of time persons serve in office
continuous body
name for the Senate because a portion of its members retain th…
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Fort Sumter
Border States
A republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the elev…
An American statesman and politician who served as President o…
Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the…
States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and M…
Confederate States of America
A republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the elev…
Jefferson Davis
An American statesman and politician who served as President o…
Florence Kelley
Upton Sinclair
Margret Sanger
Jane Adams
believed that women were by the unfair prices of goods they ha…
exposed the meat industry and wrote about how unsanitary it wa…
nurse who believed that family life and women's health would i…
became a leading figure in the settlement house movement; open…
Florence Kelley
believed that women were by the unfair prices of goods they ha…
Upton Sinclair
exposed the meat industry and wrote about how unsanitary it wa…
inauguration
cabinet
excise tax
national bank
The formal ceremony starting a President's term.
A group who advises the President and helps him with his respo…
A tax paid for the manufacture or sale of certain goods and se…
Part of Treasurer, Alexander Hamilton's plan to help our new n…
inauguration
The formal ceremony starting a President's term.
cabinet
A group who advises the President and helps him with his respo…
Louis Sullivan
Daniel Burnham
Fredrick Law Olmsted
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Designed the ten-story Wainwright Building in St. Louis
Designed the Flatiron Building in New York
Designed "Greensward" which was selected,to be Central Park in…
Designed and created the first airplane
Louis Sullivan
Designed the ten-story Wainwright Building in St. Louis
Daniel Burnham
Designed the Flatiron Building in New York
Dealignment
Democratic Party
Divided Government
Electoral College
Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection o…
One of the two major U.S political party;founded in 1828 by An…
Governance divided between the parties, as when one holds the…
A group of people named by each state legislature to select th…
Dealignment
Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection o…
Democratic Party
One of the two major U.S political party;founded in 1828 by An…
Second Great Awakening
revival
Charles Grandison Finney
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Widespread spiritual movement
a religious gathering that relied on emotional sermons to awak…
An important preacher in the revivalist movement
Leading transcendental philosopher
Second Great Awakening
Widespread spiritual movement
revival
a religious gathering that relied on emotional sermons to awak…
Spanish-American War
Cuba
Jose Martí
Ostend Manifesto
A war between Spain and the United States fought in 1898. The…
An Island south of the US that is brutally crushed by Spanish…
Led the fight for Cuba's independence from Spain from 1895 thr…
Was a secret document written by American diplomats in 1854 at…
Spanish-American War
A war between Spain and the United States fought in 1898. The…
Cuba
An Island south of the US that is brutally crushed by Spanish…
popular sovereignty
secession
transcontinental railroad
Wilmot Proviso
Before the Civil War, the idea that people living in a territo…
Withdrawal from the Union
A railway system extended across the continent
An amendment proposed to a war appropriations bill by Represen…
popular sovereignty
Before the Civil War, the idea that people living in a territo…
secession
Withdrawal from the Union
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Wilhelm II
militarism
Triple Alliance
Crowned Prince of the Austro-Hungarian empire assassinated in…
King of the German Empire
the policy of military preparedness and building up of weapons…
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Crowned Prince of the Austro-Hungarian empire assassinated in…
Kaiser Wilhelm II
King of the German Empire
accomodate
discrimination
federal
inclined
to help, to make a situation better for someone
Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of…
national government
willing to
accomodate
to help, to make a situation better for someone
discrimination
Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of…
Spanish-American War
Cuba
Jose Martí
Ostend Manifesto
A war between Spain and the United States fought in 1898. The…
An Island south of the US that is brutally crushed by Spanish…
Led the fight for Cuba's independence from Spain from 1895 thr…
Was a secret document written by American diplomats in 1854 at…
Spanish-American War
A war between Spain and the United States fought in 1898. The…
Cuba
An Island south of the US that is brutally crushed by Spanish…
Spanish-American War
Cuba
Yellow Journalism
William Randolph Hearst
A war between Spain and the United States fought in 1898. The…
An Island south of the US that is brutally crushed by Spanish…
Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to…
Newspaper editor in New York City who grew competitive and emp…
Spanish-American War
A war between Spain and the United States fought in 1898. The…
Cuba
An Island south of the US that is brutally crushed by Spanish…
integrate
eliminating
political bosses
abolish
combining different groups of people or things
Removing, doing away with something
people who helped immigrants find employment, food, and housin…
to get rid of a law or legislation
integrate
combining different groups of people or things
eliminating
Removing, doing away with something
Bill of Rights
1st Amendment
2nd Amendment
3rd Amendment
First 10 Amendments to the Constitution, added in 1791 by Jame…
Also called the 5 Freedoms: religion, speech, press, assembly,…
Right to Bear Arms
No Quartering of Troops (regular citizens do not have to house…
Bill of Rights
First 10 Amendments to the Constitution, added in 1791 by Jame…
1st Amendment
Also called the 5 Freedoms: religion, speech, press, assembly,…
Assimilation
Assassination
Civil Rights
Victim
the process of adapting to the culture of a group or nation
the murder of an important person
rights that every person should have
someone who suffers bad treatment
Assimilation
the process of adapting to the culture of a group or nation
Assassination
the murder of an important person
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
McConnell v. F.E.C.
Suffrage
Voter Turnout
Commonly known as McCain-Feingold, the 2002 BCRA was the first…
The supreme Court upheld all major elements of the Bipartisan…
Another term for the legal right to vote.
That portion of the voting-age population that actually turns…
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Commonly known as McCain-Feingold, the 2002 BCRA was the first…
McConnell v. F.E.C.
The supreme Court upheld all major elements of the Bipartisan…
Fredrick Law Olmsted
Orville and Wilbur Wright
George Eastman
Brooklyn Bridge
Main designer of Central Park in new York City, who wanted cit…
These brothers were bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio who bu…
1888, lightweight Kodak camera that make photography an afford…
Designed by John Roebling. Combines two structural systems, st…
Fredrick Law Olmsted
Main designer of Central Park in new York City, who wanted cit…
Orville and Wilbur Wright
These brothers were bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio who bu…
Declaration of Independence
Preamble
Schenk v. United States
Sheppard v. Maxwell
endowed by Creator with certain unalienable rights
"secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterit…
Free speech does not allow one to falsely shout "fire" in crow…
too much free press can endanger the right to a fair trial
Declaration of Independence
endowed by Creator with certain unalienable rights
Preamble
"secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterit…