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What are Muckrakers?
Writers and Journalists who looked to expose the horrible living conditions in inner cities and corruption in government.
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What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Addition to the Monroe Doctrine stating we could use troops in Latin America if our businesses or people in the region were threatened.
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Who are the Soviet Union and the United States?
Two most powerful countries in the world after WWII.
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What is the buffalo?
Native Americans depended on this for food, clothing and weapons.
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Who are th Navajo Code Talkers?
Native Americans who sent coded messages that were never broken.
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What is the 18th Amendment?
Amendment banning alcohol.
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What is Columbia?
Country that controlled Panama before we took it to build the canal.
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What is containment?
Truman's policy of stopping the spread of communism anywhere in the world.
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What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Battle in which 5,000 Native American warriors defeated the U.S. Cavalry.
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Who is Harry Truman?
Took over after FDR dies.
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What is The Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Law passed banning Monopolies and Trusts
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What is Cuba and the Phillipines?
The two places the Spanish American War was fought.
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What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The closest the "superpowers" ever came to nuclear war.
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What is the Homestead Act?
Gave 160 acres of free land to anyone willing to farm it for 5 years.
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What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The 2 cities we dropped atomic bombs on to end the war.
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Who is Carrie Nation?
Entered bars and saloons swing a hatchet and destroying everything in sight.
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What is Dollar Diplomacy?
President Taft's policy of controlling Lating America with money and investments instead of bullets.
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What is outspending the Soviets?
Ronald Reagan's policy to win the Cold War.
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Who is Sitting Bull
Leader of the Native Americans at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
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What is D-Day?
Turning Point in the war against the Nazis.
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What is the Spoils System?
The practice of rewarding political followers with jobs if you get elected.
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What is the Battleship Maine?
Its sinking started the Spanish American War.
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What is Detente?
Time period in the mid 1970's when relations between the "superpowers" were improving.
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Who is George Custer?
Leader of the U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
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What is the Nuremberg Trials?
German war leaders were put on trial for war crimes.
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