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14 Cards in this Set
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Angel Island
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Immigration station in California where most Asian immigrants visited
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The Wright Brothers
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Invented the first motorized plane
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Yellow journalism
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A style of journalism that uses stories to unethically attract readers
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Ellis Island
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Immigration station in New York where most immigrants from Europe visited
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immigration
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The act of moving into a new country
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Panama Canal
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A waterway that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
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Europe
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The continent where most immigrants came from
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George Washington Carver
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Came up with numerous ways to use peanut products
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William McKinley
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President during the Spanish-American War
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Invented the telephone
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Spanish-American War
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A conflict between Cuba and Spain; the U.S. got involved in April 1898
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Big Stick Diplomacy
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The belief that the U.S. could and would use force if necessary
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Thomas Edison
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Invented the electric light bulb
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Theodore Roosevelt
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President from 1901 to 1909; helped finish the building of the Panama Canal
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