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98 Cards in this Set
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Prohibition
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manufacture, sale, and transportation of alchoholic beverages were legally prohibited
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Speakeasies
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Underground taverns/hidden saloons
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Bootleggers
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people who smuggled alchohol
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Fundimentalism
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Prodistant movement grounded in a literal, or non symbolic, interpretation of the Bible
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Clarence Darrow
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Defended Scopes in the Scoes Monkey Trial
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Scopes Trial
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a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in the american Society
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Flapper
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an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day
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Double Standard
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A set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to ment than to women-required women to observe stricter standards of beavior than men did
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George Girshwin
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composer who merged traditional elements with American jazz
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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artist who produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York
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Sinclair Lewis
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first american to win a nobel prize in literature, one of most outspoken critics.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jazz Age; wrote great gadsapy, revieled negative side of era
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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wrote poems that celebrated youth and life of independance/freedom
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Ernest Heminway
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best known expatriate author
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Zora Neale Hurston
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a girl who read adventure stories and ldonged for the good life
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E.B. DuBois
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founder of NAACP
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James Weldon Johnson
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poet, lawyer, NAACP executive secretary
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Ida B. WElls
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founded antilynching organizations
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Marcus Garvey
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founded Universal Negro Improvement Association and recruted members
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Harlem Renisance
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a literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture
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Claude McKay
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urged Blacks to resist prejudice and discrimination
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Langston Hughes
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movement's best known poet; described difficult lives
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Paul Robeson
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major dramatic actor
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Louis Armstrong
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trumpeter in Creole Jazz BAnd
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Duke Elington
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Jazz pianist/composer
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Bessie Smith
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female blues singer
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Nativism
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prejudice against foreight born people
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Isolationism
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a polocy of pulling away from involevement in world affairs
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Communism
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an economic and plitical sysstem based on a signle party government ruled by a dictatorship
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Anarchists
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people who oppose any form of government
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E.B. DuBois
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founder of NAACP
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James Weldon Johnson
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poet, lawyer, NAACP executive secretary
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Ida B. WElls
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founded antilynching organizations
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Marcus Garvey
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founded Universal Negro Improvement Association and recruted members
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Harlem Renisance
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a literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture
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Claude McKay
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urged Blacks to resist prejudice and discrimination
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Langston Hughes
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movement's best known poet; described difficult lives
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Paul Robeson
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major dramatic actor
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Louis Armstrong
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trumpeter in Creole Jazz BAnd
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Duke Elington
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Jazz pianist/composer
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Bessie Smith
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female blues singer
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Nativism
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prejudice against foreight born people
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Isolationism
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a polocy of pulling away from involevement in world affairs
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Communism
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an economic and plitical sysstem based on a signle party government ruled by a dictatorship
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Anarchists
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people who oppose any form of government
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Sacco and Banzetti
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arrested and charged for murder in 1920. were itlians and judge made predudential remarks and accused them guilty even though band evidence
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Quota System
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Established a set amount of people who could enter the country from each country
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John L. Lewis
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leader of the United Mine Workers of America; called workers on strike and defied court and became a hero because wages increased 27%
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Warren G Harding
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put out campeign for normalacy and words of peace quieted and calmed the nation
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CHarles Evans Hughes
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Secretary of state, urged not more war ships be built and naval powers scrap some of war ships already existing
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Fordney Mc Cumber TAriff
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raised taxes on U.S. imports to 60%
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Ohio Gamng
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the president's poker playing cronies
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Teapot dome Sandal
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Fall secretyly leased land oilreserve in Wy, suddently recieved many loans, bonds, cash and was convicted of bribery
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Albert B. Fall
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a close friend to oil executives, leased land causing teapot dome scandal
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Calvin coolidge
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new president, pro business spirit, favored taxes down and business up
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Urban Sprawl
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cities spread in all directions
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Installment plan
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enables people to buy goods over an extended period wthout having to put down much money at the time of purchace
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Nationalism
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a devotion to the intrests and culture of one's nation
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Militarism
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development of armed forces and use of tool of dipomace
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Allies
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France, Britain, Russi
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Central Powers
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Germany, austria Hungary, Ottoman Empire
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ARchduke Franz Ferdinand
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heir to Austrian throne, shot
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No man's land
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a barren expanse of mud potmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire
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Trench warfare
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armies fought for yards of ground
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Lusitania
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a u boat sank her off coast of ireland
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Zimmerman Note
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telegram from German foreign minister to Mexico, intercepted by British, posed alliance b/t two
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Eddi Rickenbacker
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famous fighter piolet of ww1, racecar driver,
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slelected service act
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men had to register w/ govenment to be randomly sellected for service
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convoy system
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guard of destroyers escorted ships accross atlantic in groups
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American Expeditionary Force
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explared paris, led by John J. Pershing
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Gengeral John J. Pershing
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led american epeditionary force
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Alvin York
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most famous war heroes, opposes warfare because of what the Bible says
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Conscientious objector
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a person who opposes warfare on moral grounds ex: Bible
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Queen Liliuokalani
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queen of Hawaii until 1893
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Imperialism
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the polocy in which stronger nations extend economic, political, or military control over weaker territories
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Alfred T. Mahan
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admiral of us navy, urged us to build up naval power in order to comete with others
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william seaward
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secratary of state under Lincoln and Johnson, arranged for the us to buy Alaska from Russia
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Pear Harbor
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naval base on Hawaii's best port, a refueling station for american ships
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SAnford B. Doyle
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head of government set up after the takover of Hawaii
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Jose Marti
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a cuban poet and jouralist who launched a revolution against Spain
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Valerian Weyler
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general from spain sent after revolt, herded population into camps
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Yellow Journalism
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style fo writing that exagerates the news to lure and enrage readers
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USS Maine
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in 1898 the ship blew up in the harboer of Havana, more than 260 men were killed
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GEorge Pewey
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commodore who gave command to open fire on Spanish Fleet, allowed us troops to land in phillipines
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rough riders
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voulenteer calvary
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Sand Juan Hill
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strategically important point
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Teready of Paris
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Cease fire aggreement by the U.S. and spain
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Foraker Act
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ended Civil rule and started government in panama
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Platt Ammendment
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rules that the US insisted Cuba dd to it's constitution
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Protectorate
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a country who's affairs are partially controled by a higher power
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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rebel leader from the Phillipines who thought the us had promised independance
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John Hay
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US secretary fo state, issued open door notes
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Open Door Notes
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letters to imperialist nations proposing that they share their trading rights, dealt with China
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Boxer REbellion
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CHineese rebels who killed thousands
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panama Canal
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a canal cutting through Latin America
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Roosevelt cooralary
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added to Monroe Dctorine that the US would now use force to protect it's economic interests in latin america
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Francisco Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata
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leaders of rebels in mexico
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John j. Pershing
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brigader general, sent to capture villa
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