The Gilded Age

2. Extending a country through military force
4. A vote from the citizens on a law or political issue
9. A war won by the United States in 1898
13. A petition to add amendments to the constitution
14. An expose of the disgusting conditions of the meat-packing industry at the time
15. A decade period of social activism and government reform starting in the late 1890s
16. The President of the United States during part of these times
18. A waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in Panama

1. Laws that legalized racial segregation
3. Journalists that exposed business and government corruption
5. The United States' biggest and oldest civil rights organization
6. A person that believes in remaining out of other groups' affairs
7. A speech from Roosevelt stating that European intervention in the Western Hemisphere
8. The treaty that ended the Spanish American War
10. Woman who exposed the illigal things used to grow the oil industry at the time
11. A law allowing voters to remove an elected official
12. Upheld the "separate but equal" facilities based on race
17. A house that offered social and educational opportunities for the lower-class