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- 5. system: First established by the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851) and Fort Atkinson (1853), this system established boundaries for the territory of each tribe that would be overseen by the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- 7. for fraud and bribery
- 8. of Nations: International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s.
- 11. and sedition acts: two laws, enacted in 1917 and 1918, that imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against US participation in World War I.
- 13. sumner: gave a speech in may 1856 called " the Crime Against Kansas" militant opponent of slavery, beat with a cane by Preston Brooks after the speech, collapsed unconscious and couldn't return to senate for 4 years, symbol throughout the north.
- 15. stick diplomacy: Theodore Roosevelt's imperialist policy promoting the US as a world power. i.e.: treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War; Open Door Policy with China; Panama Canal; world tour of the Great White Fleet; all of which gave rise to world-power status.
- 17. points: The war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace
- 19. amendment: An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
- 20. a farmer who worked without his own supplies in exchange for some of the harvest.
- 21. nagger: Northerners who came to the south during the reconstruction era.
- 22. Canal: Theodore Roosevelt's imperialist policy promoting the US as a world power. i.e.: treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War; Open Door Policy with China; Panama Canal; world tour of the Great White Fleet; all of which gave rise to world-power status.
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- 1. amendment: An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
- 2. migration: the migration of African Americans in the south to go north or mid west in 1910-1960
- 3. and republicans were not listening to the people.
- 4. People's party
- 6. movement: Certificates sold by the United States government to pay for the war.
- 9. Stevens: A Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives. He was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,and a witty, sarcastic speaker and flamboyant party leader who dominated the House from 1861 until his death and wrote much of the financial legislation that paid for the American Civil War.
- 10. service act: This 1917 law provided for the registration of all American men between the ages of 21 and 30 for a military draft.
- 12. starts out west then spreads out
- 13. system: Used in both the First and Second World Wars. Several cargo ships would together sail from Canada to the UK protected by naval escort ships.
- 14. Nebraska act: Sen. Douglas wanted to divide the territory into the Nebraska Territory and the Kansas Territory; to gain support of the South, he decided slavery could be decided by popular sovereignty
- 16. warfare: A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. , Fighting with trenches, mines, and barbed wire. Horrible living conditions, great slaughter, no gains, stalemate, used in WWI.
- 18. machines: organizations whose main goals were the rewards money, influence, prestige of getting and keeping power