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Test for Chapter 20
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8th Grade
01/23/2010

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Frederick Jackson Turner
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historian who emphasized the imprtance of the American frontier
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Liliuokalani
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Hawaiian queen overthrown in 1893
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insolationism
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policy of avoiding involvement in other nation's affairs
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Matthew C. Perry
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commodore in the U.S. Navy who opened Japan to American trade
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imperialism
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Europe's policy, building empires by imposing political and economic control over peoples around the world
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What did the United States and Germany share control over?
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Somoa
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commercial supremacy
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everyone should have the power to control
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what was the idea of manifest destiny?
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to expand united states borders from the atlantic and pacific ocean
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