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Spanish American War
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War between the US and Cuba that the US started because they wanted Cuba to have independence and because the Maine was mysteriously destroyed in Cuba
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Imperialism
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a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
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Remember the Maine
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The explosion of a US battleship
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To hell with Spain
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Harlem Renaissance
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An African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem, that celebrated black traditions, the black voice, and black ways of life.
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National Origins Act
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A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of nationalquotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s.
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14 Point Plan
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goals of the United States in the peace negotiations after World War I. President Woodrow Wilson announced the Fourteen Points to Congress in early 1918.
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Great Migration
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movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.
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Espionage Act
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Act of 1917 is a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years.
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Eugene Debs
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A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Irvin Berlin
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Russian song writer
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Communism
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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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18th Amendment
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prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages
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Roosevelt Corollary
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an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President TheodoreRoosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03.
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