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the group of nations - originally consisting of Great Britain, France and Russia, and later joined by the United States, Italy and others - that opposed the Central Powers
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Allies
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the group of nations - led by Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire - that opposed the Allies
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Central Powers
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a law, enacted in 1882, that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials from entering the US
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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the planned management of natural resources, involving the protection of some wilderness areas and the development of others for the common good
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conservation
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an African American who migrated from the South to Kansas in the post-Reconstruction years
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exoduster
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a US law enacted in 1862, that provided 160 acres in the West to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for five years
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Homestead Act
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the policy of extending a nation's authority over other countries by economic, political or military means
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imperialism
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laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities
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Jim Crow laws
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a British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915
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Lusitania
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a law, enacted in 1906, that established strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created a federal meat-inspection program
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Meat Inspection Act
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a mixture of people from different cultures and races who blend together by abandoning their native languages and cultures
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melting pot
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the policy of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war and their use as a tool of diplomacy
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militarism
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one of the magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900's
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muckraker
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a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation
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nationalism
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favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
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nativism
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a refusal to take part in a war between other nations
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neutrality
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an artificial waterway cut through the Isthmus of Panama to provide a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, opened in 1914
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Panama Canal
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an 1896 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the separation of the races in public accomodations was legal, thus establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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an early-20th-century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life
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progressive movement
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the period from 1920-1933 during which the Eighteenth Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcohol was in force in the US
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Prohibition
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the separation of people on the basis of race
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segregation
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President Theodore Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big business
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Square Deal
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a US warship that mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on February 15, 1898
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USS Maine
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the use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract readers
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yellow journalism
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