vocabulary chapter 6
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| a newspaper that speaks untruthfully | yellow journalism
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| 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
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| Rough Rider A member of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry regiment under Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. | Rough riders
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| 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
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| A narrow strip of land connecting two larger masses of land. | isthmus
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| a financial institution offering certain services. | trust
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| reformers | Progressives
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| To search for and expose misconduct in public life. | muckracker
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| US History a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays | Blue laws
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| 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
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| Aspirations for national independence in a country under foreign domination. | nationalism
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| freindship | alliance
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| A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries. | isolationism
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| A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace | League of nation
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| 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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