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Am Stud Test 3
1865-1910
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History
11th Grade
11/03/2009

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Literacy Test
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given to A-A to restrict them from voting, whites given easy tests and A-A given impossible tests
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Poll Tax
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made to prevent A-A from being able to vote; they didn't have much money so this small fee was too much for them to be able to pay
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Grantism
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corruption under Ulysses S. Grant; money, whiskey, credit mobilay
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Solid South
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south was purely democratic after the civil war
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Reservation system
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forcing native americans off their land on to reservations, dawes-severality act let them own private land on reservations
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Realists
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saw things as they were exactly
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impressionists
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somewhat saw things but there had to be interpretation
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nationalism
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national gov't control
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The Gilded Age
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Mark Twain; age of money even though most didn't have much, corporations ruled and the poor got poorer while the rich dominated
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New Manifest Destiny
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involvement, intervention, imperialism: taking colonies, need coaling stations along pacific for navy, spreading christianity, white man's burden- we have to civilize the rest of the world
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Yellow Journalism
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Hurst & Pulitzer- painted a terrible scene
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Bourbon Democrats
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those white southerns who were in charge of making sure separate was equal after Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Boss System
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corruption in big cities; boss in city chose officials based on how big their bribe was
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White Man's Burden
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it's America's duty to civilize everyone, the WORLD, religion included
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Social Darwinism
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the fittest, money-wise, survive and the poor dwindle away
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Social Gospel
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churches had always sided with the rich and now they were siding with the poor
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"Free Silver"
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silver backing up the dollar
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Open Door Notes
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1- anyone can trade anywhere in China regardless of location 2- we protect the territorial integrity for china from invasions
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Imperalism
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expanding
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Pacific Railway Act
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established southern railroad that met the northern one at Promontory point
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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breaks up monopolies
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McKinley Tariff
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high protective tariff
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Pendleton Act
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set up civil service exam and ended spoils system
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Homestead Act
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move to west, cultivate land for 5 years and get 60 acres
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Dawes-Severalty Act
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passed because of Helen Hunt Jackson; indians on reservations got private land on reservations
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Dingley Tariff
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high protective tariff
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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barrs chinese from coming over
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Santiago
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most of fighting in Cuba around here during Spanish-American war
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Morill Tariff & Land Grant Act
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tariff that paid for land for public funded secondary schools
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De Lome letter
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bashing McKinley
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Teller Amendment
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we won't take Cuba
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Treaty of Paris 1898
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Gentlemen's Agreement
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we'll desegregate japaninese if you stop sending them over
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Platt Amendment
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Cuba becomes protectorate
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Roosevelt Corollary
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revised Monroe Doct.; we can interfere in Latin America
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Open Door Policy
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equal trade rights with China regardless of territory
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Jacob Coxey
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"if private industry isn't producing jobs then gov't should"
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Terence Powderly
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Irish immigrant, led Knight of Labor; opposed Chinese workers
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Samuel Gompers
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established & led AF of L; encouraged members to take political action.."elect your friends and defeat your enemies"; Anti-imperialist
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Eugene Debs
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union guy, in Pullman strike, became a socialist after reading Marx
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Thomas Edison
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invented phonograph, motion-picture camera, light bulb, applied principles of mass production and large teamwork- research labs
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Alexander Graham Bell
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first telephone
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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Woodrow Wilson
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missionary diplomacy
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William Jennings Bryan
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William McKinley
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Andrew Johnson
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President after Lincoln, impeached but not found guilty by 1 vote;
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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A Century of Dishonor
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Grantism
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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Frontier thesis
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Frederic Remington
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Painter Guy
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William Marcy Tweed
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NY City boss
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Joseph Glidden
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barbed wire
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Thaddeus Stevens
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leader of radical republicans for reconstruction after civil war
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John D. Rockefeller
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oil monopoly, horizontal integration
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Tom Watson
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supporter of Farmer's Alliance
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Ida Well Barnett
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tried to get ant-lynching laws passed in the south
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Booker T. Washington
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speech, Atlanta Exposition Address: separate social, together economically
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WEB DuBois
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opposed speech; together everything
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Influence of Sea Power Upon History; bigger the navy, better the defense
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KKK
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created in the south primarily against living A-A
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Scalawags
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white Southerners who supported reconstruction after civil war
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Carpetbaggers
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came from north to the south to make money
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National Labor Union
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first labor union, paved ways for others; wanted 8 hr work day and didn't like chinese workers; skilled, unskilled, farmers...
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Knights of Labor
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led by Powderly; after fall of NLB became success
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Grange
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farmers getting together to buy and share machinery; became political with Munn v. Illinois which said states could regulate the railroads, was overturned with Wabash saying it was unconstitutional because congress has that right; became a social club
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Immigration Restriction League
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wanted to stop the undesirable immigrants from coming from s & e England; thought they were threatening the American way of life
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American Protective Association
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anti-Catholic; wanted to stop Catholic immigrants, wanted English to be only language so anyone coming over had to speak it, wanted to ban catholic teachers and officials
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Homestead Steel Strike
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occurred in Penn, against Carnegie steel comp.; Pinkerton guards hired to keep strikers from attacking the scabs that replaced them
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Pullman Strikers
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against railroads, caused by paycuts, brought traffic to a halt;(attached mail cart to back of train); Cleveland sent in troops
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Farmer's Alliance
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movement strongest in south; wanted to higher prices for commodities; Tom Watson
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Anti-Imperialists
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didn't want to expand and take over others land. we're already big enough and you're taking from other, wtf?
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"Redeemers"
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Bourbon Democrats- redeeming the south
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"Scabs"
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workers taking jobs of strikers
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AF of L
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American Federation of Labor; founded by Gompers; dealt with bread and butter issues, only skilled workers
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Populists
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political party that develops
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Exparte Marryman
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supreme court said even a president couldn't suspend habeus corpus
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Munn v.Illinois
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said states could regulate railroads, overturned in Wabash case, unconstitutional
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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separate is okay as long as it's equal
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EC Knight Case
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shows that the Sherman Anti-trust Act was useless; tried to prove monopoly
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Kalamazoo Decision
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tax/public funded secondary schools
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Comstock Lode
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large mining finds
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Santiago
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most fighting in Cuba took place during S-A war
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Havana
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where USS maine blew up
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Cuba
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we wanted; deals with teller amendment; Roosevelt Corrr; Platt amendment
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NY city
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Tweed-City Boss
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Phillipenes
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Treaty of Paris 1898; we got them, 3 yr secret war, next to China; Emilio Aguinaldo: led against us
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Guam
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got in treaty
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Guam
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San Fransciso
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mining town; part of Gentleman's agreement
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Durham
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Duke family in tobacco
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New Orleans
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Santa Fe
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large mining town
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Chicago
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meat packing plants, cattle trails led to
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Battle of Little Big Horn
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Custer said he didn't need back up and he lost - against native americans
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Treaty of Paris
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pay Spain 20 mil, Philp, Guam, & Puerto Rico
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Platt Amendment
Definition
we take Cuba as protectorate
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