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chapter 6 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| yellow journalism | false or exaggerated |
| Spanish American War | the war between the Spanish and the American for the freedom of cuba |
| Rough Riders | The people chosen to lead in the Spanish american war |
| Buffalo Soldiers | The nickname the African Americans got while the native americans |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land that connects to larger areas |
| trust | the power to drop out of any competition |
| progressives | reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and to improve the way in which the government worked. |
| muckraker | they uncovered what some people saw as muck. |
| Blue Laws | passed to solve town some of the social problems in towns. |
| World War 1 | fierce rivalries had developed in England. |
| nationalism | the love of ones country and the desire to have that country free from the control of others. |
| alliance | agreement among nations to defend one another. |
| isolationism | to stay neutral and let the other countries handle their own affairs |
| League of Nations | to prevent wars |
| Treaty of Versailles | the treaty that ended world war 1 |