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Part 1 – due Monday 1/11
Review the following key terms. You may use any method you like, including flashcards,
Quizlet, or writing an opera about American history and staging it at the Met. Don’t be
surprised if you see these on a quiz someday.
Unit 3: Becoming a World Power
 manifest destiny
 Turner Thesis
 Dawes Act
 boarding schools
 reservations
 Battle of Little Big Horn
 Alfred Thayer Mahan
 Social Darwinism
 Hawaii
 Spanish-American War
 De Lome letter
 U.S.S. Maine
 reconcentration camps
 Teller Amendment
 Platt Amendment
 Philippine-American War
 Open Door policy
 Panama Canal
 Roosevelt Corollary
 World War I
 nationalism
 militarism
 imperialism
 alliance system
 Franz Ferdinand
 trench warfare
 Zimmermann Note
 Lusitania
 unrestricted submarine warfare
 yellow journalism
 Committee on Public Information
 Espionage and Sedition Acts
 Schenck v. United States
 Fourteen Points
 League of Nations
Unit 4: Becoming a Modern Nation
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21st Amendment flapper
18th Amendment
Volstead Act eugenics
Ku Klux Klan
National Origins Act of 1924
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul
Women's Christian Temperance
Union
Anti-Saloon League fundamentalism
Pentecostalism
Scopes Trial
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
NAACP women's suffrage
19th Amendment bootleggers speakeasies
William Jennings Bryan
Sacco and Vanzetti consumer culture advertising jazz
National American Woman
Suffrage Association
National Women's Party

Part 2 – due Tuesday 1/12
Outline an essay (roughly five paragraphs, including intro and conclusion) on any one of the following prompts:
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Evaluate this statement: “The United States went to war with Spain to defend itself against Spanish aggression.”
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Evaluate this argument: “The United States entered World War I to promote its own selfish economic interests.”
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Explain, using specific examples, how American policy towards Native Americans changed between the end of the Civil War (1865) and the beginning of World War I
(1914).