social studies

4. the practice of awarding government jobs to political supporters
7. election in witch voters choose their party's candidate for the general election
10. all federal jobs except elected offices and those in the military
11. mutual aid groups
13. process in witch voters can put a bill directly before the state legislature
14. process in witch people can vote directly on a bill

1. area set aside by the federal government
2. the protection of natural resources
3. ability
5. murdered by mobs
6. Mexican neighborhoods in the US
8. a person who wanted to destroy all trust
9. person who worked for women's right to vote
11. journalists who exposed corruption and other problems of the late 1800's and the early 1900's
12. the period in american history lasting from 1870 to the 1890's marked by political corruption and extravagant spending