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| 12530706264 | Romanticism | a literary and artistic movement in the 19th century Europe; emphasized emotion over reason. | 0 | |
| 12530706265 | Urban Populations and Environments | sudden population growth was only one of the problems encountered by industrialized urban areas in the West and in Japan. Water supplies were contaminated by human sewage and industrial waste. The dark skies resulting from coal-produced smoke hovering over industrial cities contributed to frequent cases of rickets, a disease of the bones caused by underexposure to light. | 1 | |
| 12530708125 | Spanish American War | (1898) Conflict between the United States and Spain that began the rise of the United States as a world power. | 2 | |
| 12530710299 | U.S. Battleship Maine | exploded in Havana harbor, the United States went to war against Spain. | 3 | |
| 12530715078 | Porfirio Diaz | in 1876, was elected president of Mexico. For the next 35 years, he continued the economic growth of the rule of his predecessor, Benito Juarez. He encouraged foreign investment, industries, and exports. In contrast to other Latin American countries such as Argentina and Brazil, Mexico was not the destination of many other immigrants; its population therefore, was largely native. Opponents of Diaz were arrested or exiled and election fraud was common. | 4 | |
| 12530721413 | Mexican Revolution | in 1910 in Mexico, the middle class began a movement for election reform. It escalated into a 10-year-long rebellion. The rebellion ended in a new constitution that guaranteed land reform, limited foreign investments, restricted church ownership of property and reformed education. | 5 | |
| 12530717468 | Assimilation | the name of plan to make Native American part of white culture. | 6 | |
| 12530722834 | Manifest Destiny | The belief that the U.S. should extend all the way to the Pacific Ocean. | 7 | |
| 12530723074 | Bi-mentallism | the backing money with silver and gold | 8 | |
| 12530727170 | Annex | to take over or add a territory | 9 |
