Chapter 19 - From Crisis to Empire

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Benjamin Harrisons
________ record as president was little more substantial than that of his grandfather, who had died a month after taking office.
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US Navy
The ________ took control of the Pacific islands of Guam and Tutuila.
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Hawaii
When the first Americans arrived in ________ in the 1790s on merchant ships from New England, there were perhaps a half million people living there.
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Washington
The government in ________ was responsible for delivering the mail, maintaining a military, conducting foreign policy, and collecting tariffs and taxes.
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1890
In the ________ off- year elections, candidates supported by the Alliances won partial or complete control of the legislatures in twelve states.
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Garfield
________ began his presidency by trying to defy the Stalwarts in his appointments and by showing support for civil service reform.
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Republican platform
The ________ opposed the free coinage of silver except by agreement with the leading commercial nations.
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Blaine
In October 1889, ________ helped organize the first PanAmerican Congress, which attracted delegates from nineteen nations.
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Foreign trade
________ became increasingly important to the American economy in the late nineteenth century.
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1893
The Panic of ________ precipitated the most severe depression the nation had yet experienced.
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Puerto Rico
It ceded ________ (now occupied by American troops) and the Pacific island of Guam to the United States.
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1892
The election of ________ (which restored Grover Cleveland to the presidency) demonstrated the potential power of the new movement.
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financial panic
The ________ weakened the governments monetary system.
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power of party bosses
The ________ had an important effect on the power of the presidency.
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Philippines
The conflict in the ________ is the least remembered of all American wars.
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presidential candidate
He became the first ________ in American history to stump every section of the country systematically, to appear in villages and hamlets, indeed the first to say frankly to the voters that he wanted to be president.
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Secretary of State John Hay
________ called the Spanish- American conflict "a splendid little war, "an opinion that most Americans- except many of the enlisted men who fought in it.
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Populist presidential candidate
The ________ was James B. Weaver of Iowa, a former Greenbacker who received the nomination after the death of Leonidas Polk, the early favorite.
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Depression conditions
________ in Europe caused a loss of American markets abroad and a withdrawal by foreign investors of gold invested in the United States.
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unsavory election
In the ________ of 1884, the Republican candidate for president was Senator James G. Blaine of Maine- known to his admirers as the "Plumed Knight "but to many others as a symbol of seamy party politics.
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annexation of Puerto Rico
Although the ________ produced relatively little controversy, the annexation of the Philippines.