Unit 7

2. Jungle - novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair
5. Crow Laws - state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
7. - a general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision
8. - a person favoring a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
9. Vs. Ferguson - the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal"
12. - reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
13. canal - a canal extending SE from the Atlantic to the Pacific across the Isthmus of Panama
14. - the ability to assess and initiate things independently
15. american war - an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898.

1. a political philosophy in support of social reform
2. of Paris 1898 - a peace agreement between Spain and the United States that ended the Spanish-American War.
3. - a request from a manufacturer to return a product after the discovery of safety issues or product defects that might endanger the consumer
4. Corollary -an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903.
6. - a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
10. House - a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
11. - a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans
14. Tarbell - best known for her classic The History of the Standard Oil Company