US History

Question 1

Used television to motivate Christians to be political.

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Charismatic Movement

Question 2

Sought to lower inflated prices and increase the supply of goods.

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Supply side economics

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Pledged Americas support to insurgent groups battling communism.

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Reagan doctrine

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Anti Sandinista guerrillas directed by the CIA.

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Contras

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Used as fueling station for Cuban communists.

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Grenada

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Democratic candidate in 1988.

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Walter Mondale

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First female candidate for Vice President.

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Geraldine Ferraro

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Took charge of the USSR in 1985.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Shift from command economics to free enterprise.

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Perestroika

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Openness of trade and ideas in Russia.

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Glasnost

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Eliminated most medium range missiles.

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Intermediate nuclear forces treaty

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Christian television: 700 club.

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Pat Robertson

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53 Americans taken from the American embassy in Tehran.

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Iranian hostage crisis

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Took power of Iran after the fall of the shah.

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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Peace treaty signed between Egypt and isreal.

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Camp David accords

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By 2000, the Panamanians would own and operate the canal.

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Panama Canal treaty

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Advocated women’s rights.

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Feminists

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High inflation and high unemployment.

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Stagflation

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OPEC nations increased prices 300%.

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Oil embargo

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President Ford gave one to Nixon.

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Pardon

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Cause of Nixon’s resignation.

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Watergate affair

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Nixon’s VP who also resigned.

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Spiro Agnew

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Only non elected president.

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Gerald Ford

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Democratic nominee 1972.

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George McGovern

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National guardsmen open fire on students.

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Kent state

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Prove many lies regarding Vietnam.

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Pentagon papers

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Nixon's Secretary of State.

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Henry Kissinger

Question 28

Attempted to integrate Americas public schools.

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Busing

Question 29

Americans were quiet, decent, and respectable.

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Silent majority

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Republicans nominee 1972.

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Richard Nixon

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Assassinated by Sirhan-Sirhan.

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Robert Kennedy

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Leader of the civil rights movement.

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Martin L. King

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Hippy movement - nonconformity.

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Counterculture

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60,000 viet cong surprised our forces.

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Yet offensive

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Included amendments regarding voting and equal treatment.

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Civil rights

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President 1980-1988

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Ronald regan

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Civil rights protest: I have a dream speech.

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March on Washington

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Determined: separate is not equal.

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Brown vs. board of education

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Unprecedented growth in population post WWII.

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Baby boom

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Government agency for volunteers to help underdeveloped nations.

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Peace corps

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President during the Camelot era.

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John F Kennedy

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Guilty of treason

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Alger Hiss

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Use of lies, distortion, and innuendo to destroy another person.

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McCarthyism

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Stood from 1961 to 1989.

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Berlin Wall

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Khrushchev put long range missiles 90 miles from our shore.

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Cuban missile crisis

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Our CIA failed to create democracy in Cuba.

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Bay of pigs

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Post Korea foreign policy regarding communism.

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Peaceful coexistence

Question 48

Eisenhower's belief: communism in Asia.

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Domino theory

Question 49

Code name: fat man and little boy.

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Atomic bomb

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Demand for Japan's unconditional surrender.

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Potsdam

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The attempted genocide of the Jewish nation by hitler.

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Holocaust

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Young men used for suicide flights in WWII.

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Kamikazes

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Securing air bases on less fortified islands in the pacific.

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Island hopping

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Winter in Ardennes forest 1944.

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Battle of he bulge

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June 6 1944- largest amphibious attack in history.

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D-day invasion

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Led by Eisenhower, land troops in Africa.

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Operation torch

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General of german panzer division.

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Erwin Rommel

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Nation wide war effort limiting various goods.

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Rationing

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December 7 1941- Japanese attack on pacific fleet.

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Pearl Harbor

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FDR's program to assist Great Britain with supplies and industry.

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Lend lease

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Erosion of farm land due to over producing in the 1930s.

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Dust bowl

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Provisions given to the unemployed during the depression.

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Bread lines

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Share the wealth, socialism canidate.

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Huey Long

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Bank accounts insured by the federal government.

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FDIC

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Project to build dams along the Tennessee river.

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TVA

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Helped debt ridden farmers keep their land.

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AAA

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Created jobs and build roads, public buildings, and parks.

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WPA

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FDR's weekly talk with America via radio broadcast.

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Fireside chats

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FDR's promise to the American people after the depression.

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New deal

Question 70

Fired upon by MacArthur during the Hoover presidency.

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Bonus army

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Highest tariff in American history: destroyed foreign trade.

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Smoot Hawley tariff

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Caused by many factors, including the crash of 29.

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Great Depression

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Investors paid only a percentage of the cost of the stock.

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On the margin

Question 74

Buying something with the hope of selling it later as a profit.

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Speculation

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Small monthly payments until the item is paid for.

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Installment plans

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Christians who fought to remove modernists from their churches.

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Fundamentalism

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Chicago psychopath, eventually jailed for tax evasion.

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Al Capone

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1921 American idol, sports in America begins.

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Babe Ruth

Question 79

Begins the science of psychology.

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Sigmund Freud

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Develops the theory of relativity.

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Albert Einstein

Question 81

The federal law making liquor illegal.

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Prohibition

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Reduces german reparations of WWI only slightly.

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Dawes plan

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Fear of communism in America.

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Red scare

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Club were liquor was served during prohibition.

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Speak easy

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Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vitorio Orlando, David Lloyd George.

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Big four

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German nation was responsible for the war and all damages.

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War guilt

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WWI truce

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Armistice

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WWI American solder nickname.

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Doughboy

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Revealed that Germany asked Mexico to invade the US.

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Zimmerman telegram

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Wilson stated America would declare war if another passenger ship was attacked.

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Sussex pledge

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German leader during WWI.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Chased back into Mexico by John J. "Black jack" Pershing.

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Poncho Villa

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Submarine

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U boat

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6 April 17

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USA in WWI

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Ideals for peace written by Woodrow Wilson.

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14 points

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Later becomes the United Nations, designed by Woodrow Wilson.

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League of Nations

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Adapted learning so to relate to the child's interests.

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Progressive education

Question 98

Create the airplane.

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Wright brothers

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Create the model t and the assembly line.

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Henry Ford

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Defined and halted unfair business practices.

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Federal trade commission

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Peace between Russia and Japan

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Root-takahira agreement

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TR nonviolent show of power.

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Great white fleet

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Policeman of Latin America.

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Roosevelt corollary

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Assisted people of color in the early 1900s.

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NAACP

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Outlawed impure food.

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Pure food and drug act

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TR's promise to Americans.

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Square deal

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Journalists who exposed abuse and corruption.

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Muckrakers

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Mrs. Martins favorite.

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Teddy Roosevelt