Unit 5 Keywords

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  1. 3. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.
  2. 6. U.S.-Japanese understanding in which Japan agreed not to issue passports to emigrants to the United States.
  3. 7. This legislation passed in 1862 during the Civil War, allowed any adult citizen or intended citizen who had never engaged in armed conflict with the American government to claim 160 acres of surveyed public land.
  4. 10. Was a commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars. He played a leading role in the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854
  5. 11. Is a massive engineering marvel that connects the Pacific Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean in Central America.
  6. 12. First and only reigning Hawaiian queen and the last Hawaiian sovereign to govern the islands, which were annexed by the United States in 1898.
  7. 13. The United States diplomatic policy established in the late 19th and early 20th century that called for a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial integrity of Qing China.
  8. 14. An interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights.
  9. 17. The policy of carefully mediated negotiation supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military.
  10. 18. Was a form of American foreign policy to minimize the use or threat of military force and instead further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through the use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
  11. 25. Was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
  12. 26. Was a business tycoon and industrialist from the United States who founded the Ford Motor Company and is credited with inventing the assembly line method of mass production.
  13. 28. A United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April.
  14. 29. Acquisition by the United States from Russia of 1,518,800 square km of land at the northwestern tip of the North American continent, comprising the current U.S. state of Alaska.
  15. 31. American term for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate, well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales.
  16. 32. Was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901
  17. 34. Was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
  18. 35. Was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace.
  19. 36. Federal law that was the first and only major federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration for a specific nationality.
  20. 43. Nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War and the only one to see combat.
  21. 46. An American industrialist of Scottish descent who oversaw the massive growth of the country's steel industry in the late 19th century. Additionally, he was among the most significant philanthropists of his time.
  22. 49. Was the terminus of the transcontinental railroad (the junction point for Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads).
  23. 51. Is a type of economic system wherein private groups of people's transactions are free from any type of economic interventionism (like subsidies originating from special interest groups).
  24. 52. Was a significant ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that established the "separate but equal" principle, which holds that racial segregation laws are legal as long as they provide equal quality of facilities.
  25. 53. American scientist and inventor of Scottish descent best credited with inventing the telephone (1876) and optimizing the phonograph (1886).
  26. 54. Was a left-wing agrarian populist political party in the United States in the late 19th century.
  27. 55. Theories and social norms that claim to apply the biological concepts of natural selection and the survival of the fittest to sociology, economics, and politics were largely developed in the 1870s by academics in Western Europe and North America.
  28. 56. Farmhouse or country house with its various outbuildings.
  29. 57. Was a national federation of labor unions in the United States.
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  1. 1. Federal income tax signed into law, direct election of senators by the populace, banned use and sale of alcoholic beverages, women's suffrage.
  2. 2. Nationalism in the form of aggressive and proactive foreign policy, such as a country's advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as opposed to peaceful relations.
  3. 4. Was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903.
  4. 5. U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man’s image.
  5. 8. A supplier of a good or service for which there is no good alternative having exclusive control over a market. In this case, the supplier is free to set the price of the good without worrying about competition from outside sources or from competing goods.
  6. 9. Were African American soldiers who mainly served on the Western frontier following the American Civil War.
  7. 15. Reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications.
  8. 16. Was an American businessman and inventor. He created numerous innovations in the production of electric power, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
  9. 19. From the 1790s to the 1960s, it served as the Democratic Party's primary local political machine, heavily influencing politics in New York City and New York State as well as assisting immigrants—most notably the Irish—in ascending to political power.
  10. 20. A fatal fire that broke out on March 25, 1911, in a sweatshop in New York City that ignited a national movement for safer working conditions in the country.
  11. 21. Throughout the Gilded Age, he was the dominant figure in corporate finance on Wall Street. He was an American financier and investment banker. He was the driving force behind the wave of industry consolidation in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the head of the banking company that eventually became known as J.P. Morgan and Co.
  12. 22. U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912.
  13. 23. An island in Upper New York Bay, formerly the United States’ principal immigration reception centre.
  14. 24. The state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas, often through employing hard power, but also soft power
  15. 27. Designated Puerto Rico as an “unorganized territory” of the United States and gave it limited self-government.
  16. 30. An American cartoonist, best known for his attack on the political machine of William M. Tweed in New York City in the 1870s.
  17. 33. An American socialist who served as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America five times. He was also a political activist, trade unionist, and one of the founding Industrial Workers of the World members.
  18. 37. American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil Company, the first significant business trust in the United States and a leader in the oil sector.
  19. 38. A federal statute that prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace.
  20. 39. Was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States.
  21. 40. The first method discovered for mass-producing steel.
  22. 41. Treaty concluding the Spanish-American War.
  23. 42. A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
  24. 44. One of the most well-known American authors of the final 30 years of the 19th century, possibly the most socially significant writer of his generation, whose works encouraged readers to work hard and persevere in the face of adversity.
  25. 45. Nez Percé chief who, faced with settlement by whites of tribal lands in Oregon, led his followers in a dramatic effort to escape to Canada.
  26. 47. It occurred between 1871 and 1876. It was an American scandal that was exposed in May 1875 and involved the theft of tax money through a plot hatched by politicians, government officials, whiskey distillers, and distributors. Whiskey producers bought off Treasury employees to boost profits and avoid paying taxes.
  27. 48. A well-known American novelist who argued for various causes, including socialism, health, temperance, free speech, and worker rights. His landmark naturalistic proletarian work, The Jungle (1906), described by fellow socialist Jack London as "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery," is a landmark among muckraking novels.
  28. 50. The political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures.