Gilded age

4. a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate
7. A procedure by which voters can propose a law or a constitutional amendment.
9. State laws in the South that legalized segregation
10. procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office
12. settlement house founded by Progressive reformer Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889
13. Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force
14. a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914)
15. officially ended the period of Spanish colonization in the Philippines and granted possession of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
17. People who wanted the United States to stay out of world affairs
18. Supreme Court case that ruled that segregation was legal as along as facilities were "separate but equal"

1. Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public
2. In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence
3. the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power and soft power.
5. A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.
6. His successful efforts to broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize, making him the first American to ever win a Nobel Prize.
8. fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century.
11. Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
16. A group of reformers who worked to solve problems caused by the rapid industrial urban growth of the late 1800s.