vocabulary chapter 6 Word Scramble
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a newspaper that speaks untruthfully | yellow journalism |
A war between Spain and the United States in 1898, as a result of which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and Guam to the United States and abandoned all claim to Cuba, which became independent in 1902. | Spanish-American war |
Rough Rider A member of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry regiment under Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. | Rough riders |
A member of one of the African-American regiments within the U.S. Army after the Civil War, serving primarily in the Indian wars of the late 1860s. | Buffalo soldiers |
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger masses of land. | isthmus |
a financial institution offering certain services. | trust |
reformers | Progressives |
To search for and expose misconduct in public life. | muckracker |
US History a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays | Blue laws |
a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918 | World War 1 |
Aspirations for national independence in a country under foreign domination. | nationalism |
freindship | alliance |
A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries. | isolationism |
A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace | League of nation |
the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans | Treaty of versailles |
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