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nicknamed "fighting bob" he was a progressive congressmen for Wisconsin
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5 time candidate for the socialist party of America
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birth control activist, she opened the first birth control clinic in America
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Gold discovered in Alaska led settlers to Alaska
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He wrote lectures of the influences of sea power from 1660-1783, and showed how sea power drives national supremacy
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the McKinley tariff raised import rates on foreign products, sugar planters were undersold in USA
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The US occupied part of Latin America to teach them ways for democracy and to expand is contorl
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Japan began to rise as a imperialistic power
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a book published that showed and expressed the living conditions of New York in the 1880s
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In 1893, a group of businessmen and sugar farmers over throw the queen on the kingdom of Hawaii
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The US annexed Hawaii after the Spanish American war to gain control
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Spain gives complete control of the Philippines to the US
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the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor in Cuba
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War between USA and Spain led to US involvement in war for Cuban independence
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Captured by the US, didn't want to give them back to Spain or keep them
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after the 3 month war, Spain lets go of Guam, Philippines, and Cuba
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Journalists wrote stories about the USS Maine to anger US citizens against Spain
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US would send troops to Cuba to help set up a new government
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Idea of gaining natural resources and spread democracy outside of North America
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leader of the Filipino independence movement, declared independence in 1899, captured by US in 1901
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War between US and the Philippines after the Spanish American War
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Rebellion in Beijing against foreign devils, crushed by troops
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US and Europe did not have spheres of influence in China
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Theodore Roosevelt said speak softly but carry a big stick
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refined the interstate commerce act and gave heavy fines to railroad companies that offered rebates and on the shippers who accepted them
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a short lived department, concerned with controlling the excesses of big businesses
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Case heard by the courts from the Great Northern and northern pacific railroad companies that had formed a monopoly and were dissolved
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act passed to make it illegal for meat to be miss-branded and sold if it wasn't processed under sanitary conditions
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novel that inspired pro-consumer federal laws on meat, drugs, and food
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Using the countries financial power to influence others
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deadliest industrial accident in the history of New York
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3rd political party created by Theodore Roosevelt after losing to the republican candidate
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gave congress the authority to create federal reserve notes to the banks
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48 mile canal in panama to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific
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the Panama Canal was used by the US navy to create new strategy for the Pacific
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the Mexican revolution to US intervention cause the US to push further into Mexico
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when WWI started, Wilson did not want anything to do with the war
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agency established to promote free and fair competition in the markets and to protect consumers
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When a German sub sank a British ocean linear, killing 1,198, and 100 Americans
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short lived act that prohibited the sale of goods from factories that employed children
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banned the sale, and transportation of alcohol
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Wilson convinced the US to enter the war by saying it was a war to end all wars
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US made criticism of the constitution illegal and persecuted anyone who did
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when the united states entered the war, the military wasn't prepared to go to war
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a scare that the fear of a communist rise in America
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Wilson gave a speech to give confidence for the US and the allies to continue fighting
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Treaty signed that signaled the end of WWI
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President Hoover began to send Mexican immigrants back to Mexico
