Gilded Age Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. People who wanted the United States to stay out of world affairs
  2. 7. interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
  3. 9. A group of reformers who worked to solve problems caused by the rapid industrial urban growth of the late 1800s.
  4. 11. Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public
  5. 13. procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office
  6. 14. Tarbell A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.
  7. 16. A procedure by which voters can propose a law or a constitutional amendment.
  8. 17. Vs.Ferguson Supreme Court case that ruled that segregation was legal as along as facilities were "separate but equal"
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  1. 1. American War In 1898 a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence
  2. 2. Corollary 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
  3. 3. a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
  4. 5. Jungle is a novel written by Upton Sinclair in 1906.It is about the dangers of the meatpacking industry at the time. Told through the fictional story of an immigrant family.
  5. 6. a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate
  6. 8. Canal a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914)
  7. 10. House settlement house founded by Progressive reformer Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889
  8. 12. of Paris 1898 signed on December 10 1898 was a peace agreement between Spain and the United States that ended the Spanish-American War.
  9. 15. Crow Laws State laws in the South that legalized segregation.