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Indentured servant

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Work for free to pay off ticket debt

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Subsidence farming

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Farming only for yourself and your family

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Proprietary colony

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Individual or group granted full rights of self-government

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Mercantilism

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Benefits of trading

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Customs duties

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Tax on imports

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Federalism

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Division of power between national and state government

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Amendment

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Making a change in the Constitution

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Ratification

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To approve

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Nomads

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Travel place to place

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Republic

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Government in which power resides with the people, entitled to vote

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Minutemen

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Quick army

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Federalists

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Supporters of the Constitution

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Antifederalists

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Non-supporters of the Constitution

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Spoils system

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Gov Jobs to friends and family as reward

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Secede

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To break away from

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Attrition

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Reduce strength by attack

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Conscription

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Into Armed Forces

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Martial law

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Rule by military

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Amnesty

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Granting a pardon

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Carpetbaggers

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Northerners that came to south during the construction

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Sharecroppers

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Farmers who work the land

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Black codes

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Laws to limit African-American rights

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Seize

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Military operation to surround town and building, to cut off

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Placer mining

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Used to find gold, sifting through water

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Quartz Mining

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Underground mining

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Boomtowns

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Town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity

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Open range

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Large grazing area

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Assimilate

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To take in understanding fully absorb as one

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National gross product

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Value of labor and services produced in one year by a country

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Free enterprise

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Economic system, businesses operate competitively for profit, little government interference

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Vertical integration

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Two companies in one

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Horizontal integration

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One company owns all

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Labor unions

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Worker strive for better working conditions

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Nativism

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Preference for one’s own race or native born group

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Tenements

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Family, dark apartments

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Individualism

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Independent, self-reliant

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Steerage

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Lowest deck of the ship

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Realism

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Style art music and literature

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Imperialism

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Economic And political domination

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Protectorate

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Country that is technically independent but under control by another

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Pan-Americanism

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Cooperation among countries of the North and South America

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Yellow journalism

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False reporting

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Sphere of influence

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A country that has power over another country without formal authorization

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Progressivism

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Spectrum of social movements, to move forward

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Muckrakers

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A journalist who shows abuses in society

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Direct primary

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Voters choose candidates to run on a parties together. Vote by direct vote

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Suffrage

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Right to vote

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Prohibition

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Banning alcohol

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Socialism

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Government takes over major industries, distribute wealth

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Arbitration

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Settling disputes, third-party needed

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Income tax

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Text paid based on the amount of money you make

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NAACP

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African-American civil rights organization

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How long did it take Columbus to travel across the ocean

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Five weeks

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Why millions natives died after Europe

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Disease and military conquest

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Two sides in French and Indian war

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French and Indians versus Britain

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Name of letter sent to King George the third student called and his loyalty and peace

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Olive branch petition

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What was the last major American victory

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Yorktown

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What country does US purchased Louisiana territory

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France

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What was the United States policy that declared American continents no longer open to colonization

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Monroe doctorine

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What was The system that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom

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The underground railroad

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What was the idea that the US was meant to spread to Europe

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Manifest destiny

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What was the first day to vote to secede or leave

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South Carolina

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Who is the president of the Confederacy

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Jefferson Davis

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What years of the Civil War take place

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1861 to 1865

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Who is the southern general during the Civil War

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Robert E lee

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Which amendment abolished slavery

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13th amendment

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What was the period of building south

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ReConstruction

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About how many immigrants arrived from 1860 to 1910

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20 million

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Where did more than half of the immigrants come from

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Southern and Eastern Europe and

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Who invented the telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Where did immigrants from Asia come to

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Angel Island

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Where did immigrants from Europe come from

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Ellis Island

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Term for economic and political domination

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Imperialism

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What year did Spanish American war take place

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1898

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Reasons for going to America

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Jobs religios freedom new start

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Life and treatment of Native Americans

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Treated horribly, died

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Proclamation act of 1763

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Colonist could not expand into appellation Mountains

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Sugar Act of 1764

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More tax

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Stamp act of 1765

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For tax

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Townshed acts of 1767

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Imposed taxes on glass, paints, paper, Tea

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French and Indian war

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Britain versus French and Indian, over Ohio River Valley

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Boston massacre

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Colonist time to soldiers, soldiers killed five news spread

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Boston tea party

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Colonist dumb hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor to boycott Taxes

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Olive branch petition

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Sent to King George the third asking for leniency and cooperation

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Revolutionary war

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War for American independence, versus Britain

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The war of 1812

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Written, America, Ireland. Anger over trade issues

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Louisiana territory

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Purchased from friends, middle right US

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Monroe doctrine

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Doctoring that declared America no longer open to colonization

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Industrial Revolution

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Developments in transportation, machine inventions used to move goods, people

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Labor unions

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Fight for their rights as workers

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Missouri compromise

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Resulted in 11 free, 11 slave states

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Reform movements

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Temperance – moderation of alcohol, school and prison reformation – improved education

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Manifest destiny

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Believe that America is supposed to expand to the Pacific

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Compromise of 1850

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California as a free state, no restrictions on slaves, used popular sovereignty

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The underground railroad

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System to free slaves into free states

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The union

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For USA

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The Confederacy

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Seceding states led by Jefferson Davis

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The civil war

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Union - northern and confederacy - southern fought over slavery, trade, tariffs

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Reconstruction

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When federal government site conditions to let the south back into the union

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Immigration

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To come in

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The Great Plains

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People are cattle ranchers and farmers

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Inventions: telephone and lightbulb

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Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison

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Spanish-American war

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Tweens been in US

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Annexation

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Philippines in Guam. Stop over in China, large navel base

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The Panama Canal

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Built to get to Pacific. You is how Panamanians become independent in order to finish its work

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