Key Terms and Concepts

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To describe the quality of something as being more impressive or unusual than it actually is.

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Exaggerate

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A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through colonization, military force, or other means.

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Imperialism

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A large farm, usually in a warm climate, on which many workers, servants, or enslaved people live and work.

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Plantation

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The members of a volunteer cavalry organized by Theodore Roosevelt.

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Rough Riders

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A feeling produced in a situation when people do not trust each other.

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Tension

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A formal, written agreement between peoples or nations.

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Treaty

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A type of news reporting that may stretch the truth and even lie to its readers.

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Yellow Journalism