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He was a New York city political orgaization that was a democratic part plitical machine that controled New York City's politics and helping immigrants.
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This is a political ideology that involes a strong indetificaton of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms.
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The united kingdown started to being mjor changes in agriculture, manufacturing,mining, transportation, and technology.
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The Sinking of the USS Maine triggered the war. The Spanish were sinking ships from an under water submarine and have already sunk one of the U.S ships before. The U.S suspected that spain was the one that sunk the USS Maine but really it was just a build up of coal dust that was ignited and blew up the USS Maine.
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The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
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The belife or desire of a goverment or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national intrests.
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From The Darwin's theory of eveolution, they applied the principle of natural selection to society, arguing that life consited of a struggle in which only the fittest survived.
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This war involed all the worlds great powers that were assembled in two alliances. The Allies which included Britain, France, and Russia and the central powere which included Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. There was more then 70 million miliray personnel, including 60 million europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. More then 9 million combatants were killed.
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The United States was in a periodof social activism and political reform. The main goal wasthe purification of the government, the proressive tried to eliminate corruption by exposing and undercutting political machines and bosses.
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Is a pejorative term for a 19th century American businessman. By the 1890's the term was used to attak any businessman who used questionable practice to become wealthy . It combines the sense of criminal "roober" and illegitimate aristocracy "Baron".
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This was the legal act of prohibitiong the manufacture, transportaion, and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages.
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An American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent.
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He was the 26th president of the United States (1901-1909). He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the progressive movement. He was a leader of the Republican party and founder of the Progressive "Bull Mosose" party of 1912.
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The term muckrakers is closely associated with reform-oriented journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, contived a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the U.S after 1900 and the continued to be influential until World War I, when through a combination of advertising boycotts, dirty tricks, and patriotism, the movement, associated with the progressive era in the U.S, cameto an end.
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He was the author of "The Jungle", it exposed conditions in the U.S meat packing indstry, causing a publiv uprar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and and the Meat Inspection Act.
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He was the 28th president of the United states from 1913-1921. A leader of the progressive movement.
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The allied powers is the name givien to the alliance of countries in opposition to the axis powers in World War II. The Untied States, Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, India, The Soviet Union, Canada, and Greece are some of the countries thath were part of the allied powers.
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The Central powers were composed of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the kingdom of Bulgaria. The aligment originated in the triple alliance, and fought aginst the Allied powers in Wolrd War I.
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He was an Archduke of Austro-Hungarian and Royal prince of Hungary and of Bohemia. From 1889 until his death. He was assasinated by a man from Serbia that was in a group that wanted thier independence from Austro-Hungarian. The assasinated made Austro-Hungarian declare war with Serbia which started World War I.
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A diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States.
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The treaty was unfaire and harsh to Germany. It stated that they owe $32 billion in war debt and this would cause economic disaster for Germany. The senators did not sign the treaty because they felt like it was unfaire to Germany.
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After World War I the U.S attempted to become less involed in world affarirs. The U.S refused to join the league of Nations. Also the U.S closed the doors of immigration to the Chinese, Japanese, and other Asians, but later the U.S began to exclude even Europeans.
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The Secretary of the interior Alber B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at TeaPot Dome and two other locations to private oil companies at low rates with out comppetitive bidding. Pall was later convited of accepting bribes from oil companies.
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This was an act sponsored by the United States senator Reed Smoot and Representaive Willis C. Hawley, and signed into law on June 17,1930, that raised U.S tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.
