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unit one
Term | Definition |
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political cartton | used by muckrakers to portray problems in society |
propaganda | using half truths and half lies |
geopolitics | how the geography of a country affect what happens to the country |
ethnocentrism | the belief that you culture is better an any other |
primary source | an original document from history |
segregation | to separate the races |
carpet bagger | a name for northerns who moved to the west in hope of getting rich |
sharecroppers | a farmer that works on land owned by someone else |
homestead act | a law pass to encourage people to settle west |
Transcontinental railroad | a railroad that stretches across the country |
manifest destiny | idea in the 1800s that the US should stretch across the continent from the Atlantic to the pacific oceans |
13th amendment | banned slavery |