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  1. 4. a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
  2. 5. an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  3. 10. gave women the right to vote
  4. 11. Formally ended slavery
  5. 12. the ship that exploded that caused the start of the Spanish American War
  6. 15. the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
  7. 16. The Palmer Raids were a series of raids in late 1919 and early 1920 by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States.
  8. 19. United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
  9. 21. A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.
  10. 22. established in the War Department by an act of March 3, 1865. The Bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen, including issuing rations, clothing and medicine.
  11. 23. the country that used the tacit of unrestricted submarine warfare
  12. 24. a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.
  13. 25. presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.
  14. 26. those of the major war criminals and these were held from November 20th, 1945 to October 1st, 1946.
  15. 27. the ideological battle between the US and the USSR from the end of WW2 until 1989
  16. 28. North America Treaty Organization
  17. 29. a member of a gang of criminals, especially a racketeer.
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  1. 1. an act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri.
  2. 2. leader in the black power movement
  3. 3. gave former slaves the right to vote
  4. 6. . On June 29, 1892, workers belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pa. to protest a proposed wage cut.
  5. 7. the name of the speech that President Wilson gave on how to achieve freedom after WW1
  6. 8. it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia.
  7. 9. an arrangement made in 1941 whereby the US supplied military equipment and armaments to the UK and its allies, originally as a loan in return for the use of British-owned military bases.
  8. 13. gave former slaves US citizenship
  9. 14. the act of Congress in 1854 annulling the Missouri Compromise, providing for the organization of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and permitting these territories self-determination on the question of slavery.
  10. 17. May 8, 1945, the day of victory in Europe for the Allies in World War II
  11. 18. leader of the non-violent approach to the Civil Rights Movement
  12. 20. comprehensive plan to defeat the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War. North squeezes the south