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| 12503555732 | aquaduct | A large pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source over a long distance | 0 | |
| 12503555733 | Urbanization | Movement of people from rural areas to cities | 1 | |
| 12503602025 | Great Migration | movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920 | 2 | |
| 12503635606 | Tenement | A building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety | 3 | |
| 12503764268 | mass transit | Transportation system designed to move large numbers of people along fixed routes | 4 | |
| 12503872968 | land fill | where garbage is collected stored and covered properly the oldest waste disposal method | 5 | |
| 12504052971 | Flat Iron Building | originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-story steel-framed landmarked building located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper | 6 | |
| 12516761602 | Frederick Law Olmsted | Designer of New York City's Central Park, who wanted cities that exposed people to the beauties of nature. One of his projects, the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, gave a rise to the influential "City Beautiful" movement | 7 | |
| 12516788432 | Jane Addams | the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes | 8 | |
| 12516813783 | pulp fiction | Novels written for mass consumption, often emphasizing exciting and titillating plots. | 9 | |
| 12562953279 | Alfred T. Mahan | officer in the u.s. navy, taught at the naval war college | 10 | |
| 12563067901 | Globalism | The idea that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected | 11 | |
| 12636941446 | Militarism | A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war | 12 | |
| 12653699054 | Standford Dole | made himself president of Hawaii after Liluakalani was forced to step down; called for US annexation of Hawaii | 13 | |
| 12653943864 | Joesph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst | yellow journalism, Jingoism (Spanish American War) | 14 | |
| 12673110197 | Dupuy de Lome | He was a Spanish minister in Washington who wrote a private letter to a friend concerning President McKinley (called him basically usless and indecisive) The discovery of his letter strained Spanish-American relations, which helped initiate the Spanish-American War. | 15 | |
| 12673114889 | USS Maine | Ship that explodes off the coast of Cuba in Havana harbor and helps contribute to the start of the Spanish-American War | 16 | |
| 12688507824 | William Jennings Bryan | Democratic candidate for president in 1896 under the banner of "free silver coinage" which won him support of the Populist Party. | 17 | |
| 12688540420 | Insular Cases | Determined that inhabitants of U.S. territories had some, but not all, of the rights of U.S. citizens. | 18 | |
| 12688616299 | Teller Amendment | This Amendment was drafter by Henry M. Teller which declared that the US had no desire for control in Cuba & pledged the US would leave the island alone. | 19 | |
| 12688735314 | White Man's Burden | the task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies. | 20 | |
| 12737462827 | Yellow Fever | a disease transmitted by mosquitoes: its symptoms inclued high fever and vomiting | 21 | |
| 12737580379 | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty | 1903 - U.S. guaranteed the independence of the newly-created Republic of Panama. | 22 | |
| 12737671841 | Gunboat Diplomacy | The use or threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements. | 23 | |
| 12737729618 | corollary | something that follows; a natural consequence | 24 | |
| 12877809475 | Initiative | process that permits voters to put legislative measures directly on the ballot | 25 | |
| 12877809476 | Referendum | a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate | 26 | |
| 12877843883 | Recall | A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test. | 27 | |
| 13141824527 | Militarism | A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war | 28 | |
| 13141827069 | Alliances | a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations. | 29 | |
| 13160473911 | Zimmerman Telegram | This was sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917. | 30 | |
| 13233005676 | The Great War (WWI) | 1914-1918 involved all of Europe and perpetrated enormous slaughter and devastation. It brought widespread misery, social disruption and economic collapse. | 31 | |
| 13233130700 | Bernard Baruch | He headed the War Industries Board which placed the control of industries into the hands of the federal government. It was a prime example of War Socialism. | 32 | |
| 13233357208 | Schenck v. United States | A 1919 decision upholding the conviction of a socialist who had urged young men to resist the draft during World War I. Justice Holmes declared that government can limit speech if the speech provokes a "clear and present danger" of substantive evils. | 33 | |
| 13233378510 | Convoy System | the protection of merchant ships from U-boat-German submarine-attacks by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships | 34 | |
| 13251262745 | Versailles Treaty | The compromise after WW1, settled land and freedom disputes. Germany had to take full blame for the war in order for the treaty to pass, among other things. The US Senate rejected it. | 35 | |
| 13251381987 | Henry Cabot Lodge | Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was a leader in the fight against participation in the League of Nations | 36 | |
| 13251386105 | 14 points | (1918) President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars. | 37 | |
| 13529508315 | Harding Cabinet | Vice President- Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Mass Sec of State- Charles Evans Hughes Sec of Commerce- Herbert Hoover Attorney General- Harry Daugherty Sec Interior- Albert Fall Secretary of Treasury- Andrew Mellon | 38 | |
| 13529534468 | Teapot Dome Scandal | A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 | 39 | |
| 13529553814 | Albert B. Fall (1861-1944) | A scheming conservationist who served as Secretary of the Interior under Warren G. Harding, He was one of the key players in the notorious Teapot Dome scandal. | 40 | |
| 13529645278 | Calvin Coolidge | Became president when Harding died of pneumonia. He was known for practicing a rigid economy in money and words, and acquired the name "Silent Cal" for being so soft-spoken. He was a true republican and industrialist. Believed in the government supporting big business. | 41 | |
| 13529679997 | urban sprawl | The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land. | 42 | |
| 13587267748 | Alfred E. Smith | He was the Democratic presidential candidate in the 1928 election. He was the first Catholic to be elected as a candidate. | 43 | |
| 13587463534 | buying on margin | paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest | 44 | |
| 13587515838 | Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929) | On this day the stock market boom had fell out, as millions of panicky investors ordered their brokers to sell, when there were practically no buyers to be found. After that stock prices continued to go down until they finally hit bottom. | 45 | |
| 13602210649 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | protective import tax authorized by Congress in 1930 | 46 |
