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Political group within the Republican Party led by Roscoe Conkling of New York that favored traditional, professional machine politics

The argument that human species had evolved from earlier forms of life through a process of “natural selection”

The Stamp Act helped to unify the colonies.

The American politician who referred to the Spanish-American conflict as “a splendid little war” was

The 1920s census of the United States revealed that

The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of

The Treaty of Paris of 1898 required Spain to cede Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam to American control without any compensation.

Colonists’ name given to the Seven Year’s War in the colonies that strained the relationship of England to its colonies and marked the decline of relationships between Native Americans and Europeans

Thomas Jefferson’s term for his election in 1800 which saw the peaceful transfer of power between ideologically opposed parties

A group of laws passed under President John Adams that limited new immigrants’ access to citizenship and gave the federal government broad powers to limit criticism of the government