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17th Amendment

Gave Legislative power to choose senators

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18th Amendment

Established prohibition of alcohol

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19th Amendment

Prohibits the U.S. from denying voting rights based on gender

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Ragtime

Leisure music genre popular in the past

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Allowed separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites

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Spoils System

Elected leaders rewarding supporters with jobs and favors

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Boxer Rebellion

1900 peasant uprising in China against foreigners

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Seward's Icebox

Alaska purchase from Russia by Seward for $7.2 million

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Remember the Maine

USS Maine ship explosion leading to war with Spain

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Stalemate

Conflict where neither side makes progress

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U-Boat

German submarine

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Doughboys

Nickname for American soldiers in WWI

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Lusitania

British ship sunk by German U-Boat in WWI

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Espionage Act

Imposed penalties for spying

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Sedition Act

Crime to speak or print against the government

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Sabotage Act

Punished destruction of war supplies

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Zimmerman Note

German offer to Mexico for alliance against the U.S.

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Treaty of Versailles

1919 treaty holding Germany responsible for WWI

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Laissez-faire

Belief in minimal government intervention in private life

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Flapper

Carefree young women in the 1920s

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Installment Buying

Purchasing with small payments over time

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William Jennings Bryan

Lawyer in the Scopes trial; anti-evolution

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Clarence Darrow

Lawyer who represented Scopes in the trial

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

Called for the outlawing of war

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Blitzkrieg

Sudden massed forces attacks

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Mein Kampf

Book written by Adolf Hitler

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Neutrality Acts

Banned selling weapons during war

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Axis Alliance

Germany, Italy, and Japan alliance

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Internment Camps

Where Japanese Americans were detained during WWII

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Code Talkers

Native Americans using code in war communication

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D-Day

Normandy invasion during WWII

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Island Hopping

Strategy of capturing key islands in war

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Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Japanese cities bombed by the U.S. in WWII

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Kamikaze

Japanese suicide pilots in WWII

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McCarthyism

Reckless use of unproven charges against communism

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Containment

Policy to stop the spread of communism

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Taft Hartley Act

Limits workers' actions against employers

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Demilitarized Zone

Region where military forces are prohibited

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38th Parallel

Division line between North and South Korea

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Dr. Jonas Salk

Developed the polio vaccine

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Bill Haley and the Comets

Rock 'N' Roll band with hit 'Around the Clock'

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Isolationism

Policy of avoiding involvement in other countries' affairs

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Expansionism

State doctrine of territorial and economic growth

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A Day that will Live in Infamy

Roosevelt's call to declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbor

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