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Expanding Overseas and Rights
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History
5th Grade
01/31/2011

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Great Migration
Definition
movement of millions of African Americans from South to the North
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tenant
Definition
a person who rented land and equipment and paid with a portion of crop
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NAACP
Definition
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, helped to fight discrimination
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Law passed in 1882 to limit immigration on the basis of race
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Homer Plessy
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Challenged a Jim Crow Law, which helped lead to a famous Supreme Court case; "separate but equal"
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suffrage
Definition
right to vote
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19th Amendment
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1919; amendment that gave women the right to vote
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Progressive
Definition
reformers who worked to stop unfair pratices by businesses and to improve the way in which government worked
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muckraker
Definition
writers who uncovered the shameful conditions in businesses
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Blue Laws
Definition
laws that helped solve social problems of the day, no alcohol sales on Sunday
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conservation
Definition
protecting something from being destroyed
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trusts
Definition
when large companies joined together to control entire industries
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Alaska
Definition
territory purchased from Russia
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annex
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to join the United States
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Maine
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ship that was blown up causing the U.S. to enter the Spanish American War
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yellow journalism
Definition
exaggerated false reporting
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Theodore Roosevelt
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leader during the Spanish American War, later became president
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Rough Riders
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group of volunteer soldiers that fought with Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish American War
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Buffalo Soldiers
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group of African American soldiers that fought during Spanish American War
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Spanish American War
Definition
war fought against Spain in Cuba
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Panama Canal
Definition
canal built for safer and speedier travel from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean
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Treaty of Paris
Definition
treaty that ended the Spanish American War
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