Gilded Age Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. a general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision
  2. 7. a power reserved to the voters to propose legislation, by petition, that would enact, amend or repeal a City Charter or Code provision
  3. 9. state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
  4. 10. a power reserved to the voters that allows the voters, by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official.
  5. 12. a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of the city, Hull House opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had expanded to 13 buildings.
  6. 13. a United States foreign policy established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. It stated that the U.S. would intervene in Latin American countries where European powers sought to collect debts or whose governments were thought to be unstable.
  7. 14. a constructed waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama.
  8. 15. a peace agreement between Spain and the United States that ended the Spanish-American War. Under the treaty, Cuba gained independence from Spain, and the United States gained possession of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
  9. 17. a person favoring a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
  10. 18. a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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  1. 1. any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing.
  2. 2. an armed conflict between Spain and the United States. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence
  3. 3. a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
  4. 5. an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism.
  5. 6. an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909
  6. 8. a novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities
  7. 11. a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells.
  8. 16. a political philosophy in support of social reform