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9th Grade
06/16/2010

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zimmerman telegram
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telegram sent by great britain later got intercepted from germany describing to proposed alliances with Mexico,to regain Texas,NM, and Arizona.
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Treaty of Versailles
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Agreement to end World War one and reparation to be paid by Germany
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War guilt Clause
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Who should be the blame to pay off the war damage
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WW1 Allies
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USA, Serbia, Romania, Greece, Portugal, France, great Britain, Italy, and Russia
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WWI central Power
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Austria-Hungary germany bulgaria and ottoman empire
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Political machine
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Unofficial city organization design to keep a particular party or group in power
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squatter
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people who move onto land that does not belong to them
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Boomers
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pressure congress to allow legal settlement in the territory
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Sooners
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perosn who settle land in the newly opened Indian territory
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Fourteen Points
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A peace program by Woodrow Wilson, That includes key points for end of secret alliances, freedom of the seas, and reduction of armaments.
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League of Nation
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Organization proposed by woodrow Wilson, Hopes joining nation together for peace and security
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Selective Services
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Draft young men to join the Military
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Booker T. Washington
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AA. leader founded the Tuskegee Institute, and encourage blacks to learn about trade
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W.E.B Du Bois
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AA. scholar leader, encourage blacks, to attend college to develop leadership
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KU KLUX KLAN
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Organization which used to lynching and violence to intimate and control African American
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NAACP
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an organization fought for civil rights through demonstration, lawsuits and other means
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Gilded age
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a tragic era and dreadful decade that describe corruption of government, persistent economics, social and political promblems
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Spoil System
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Those who were elected to public offices were to oppoint friends and supports to government
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Federal reserve
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the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies
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Literary Test-
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test in which would be voters have to demonstrates certain knowledge before they can vote
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grandfather clause
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allows an old rule to continue to apply to some existing situations, when a new rule will apply to all future allows an old rule to continue to apply to some existing situations, when a new rule will apply to all future
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Poll tax
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a tax paid in some states before a person was allowed to vote
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Ghetto
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section of a city that a residents to a certain ethnic or racial group
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social Darwinism
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to discourage government interference in business
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injunction
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A court order preventing one or more specific parties from taking some action
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collective bargaining
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which workers negotiate as a group of employees
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primary election
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is an election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election
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patronage system
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s an informal practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory
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