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Match each item with the best possible description. 1. forced America to produce goods once imported from England Fulton's Folly 2. noninvolvement in world affairs Rough Riders 3. negotiations between labor and management Embargo Act of 1807 4. Alaskan Purchase isolationism 5. battle of San Juan Hill standardized parts 6. combining of corporations consolidation 7. blown up in Havana harbor Seward's Folly 8. Clermont collective bargaining 9. interchangeable parts Maine

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The following are the terms with their correct descriptions:

1. Embargo Act of 1807: forced America to produce goods once imported from England.

2. Isolationism: non-involvement in world's affairs.

3. Collective bargaining: negotiations between labor and management.

4. Seward's Folly: Alaskan purchase.

5. Rough riders: Battle of San Juan Hill.

6. Consolidation: combining of corporations.

7. Maine: blown up in Havana Harbor.

8. Fulton's Folly: Clermont.

9. Interchangeable parts: standardized parts.

Step-by-step explanation:

1: The Embargo Act of 1807 was passed by President Thomas Jefferson and prohibited American ships to trade in all foreign ports.

2: Isolationism is defined as a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

3: Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, and other benefits.

4: Known as the "Seward's Folly" the negotiation between the United States and the Russian Empire that ended up with the Americans purchasing Alaska from the Russians.

5: The "Rough Riders" were a group of cowboys that participated in the Battle of San Juan Hills in 1898.

6: In the corporate world, the term consolidation means the merging or the combining of two different corporations or enterprises in order to become one.

7: In 1898 the USS Maine an American Navy ship was sent to the Havana Harbor during the Spanish -American War, where it was blown up and later sank.

8: "Fulton's Folly" was the name of a steamboat that was also known as the Clermont, owned by Robert Fulton, that was the first to demonstrate the possibility of using vessels as a commercial way of transportation.

9: interchangeable parts are components that have been standardized in order for them to be identical so that they can all fit into any assembly of the same type.

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1. forced America to produce goods once imported from England
2. noninvolvement in world affairs
3. negotiations between labor and management
4. Alaskan Purchase
5. battle of San Juan Hill
6. combining of corporations
7. blown up in Havana harbor
8. Clermont
9. interchangeable parts

ANSWERS:
1.Embargo Act of 1807
2.isolationism
3.collective bargaining
4.Seward's Folly
5.Rough Riders
6.consolidation
7.Maine
8.Fulton's Folly
9.standardized parts
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