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- 1. a militant Irish republican. He was sentenced to death with his elder brother Joseph Plunkett and his younger brother John after the 1916 Easter Rising.
- 5. a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
- 8. the part of a ship providing accommodations for passengers with the cheapest tickets.
- 9. the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time.
- 10. the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
- 13. a form of political corruption defined as the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain.
- 17. the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
- 18. the general decline of the price level of goods and services.
- 20. an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, punish a convicted transgressor, or intimidate.
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- 2. a political group in which an authoritative leader or small group command the support of a corps of supporters and businesses
- 3. paper currency fiat money issued by the United States during the American Civil War that were printed in green on the back.
- 4. an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and State.
- 6. the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual.
- 7. A pioneer in the use of photography as an agent of social reform.
- 11. an immigration station located in San Francisco Bay which operated from January 21, 1910 to November 5, 1940, where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated. Angel Island is an island in San Francisco Bay.
- 12. an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism".
- 14. a federally-owned island in New York Harbor that was the busiest immigrant inspection station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there under federal law.
- 15. any kind of permanent property, e.g. lands or rents, held from a superior.
- 16. a person who controls a faction or local branch of a political party.
- 19. period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s that gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism.