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to add to an area to an existing country
What is annex?
the ocean the Panama Canal opened into and connected with the Caribbean Sea
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The Rough Riders were led by what individual during the Spanish-American War?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
the government breaking up business trusts or monopolies
What is trust busting?
the protection and wise use of natural resources
What is conservation?
A result of the Spanish-American war was that the US gained _____, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
What is Cuba?
Woodrow Wilson passed a reform for a new amendment that gave the power of electing _____ to the people.
What are senators?
the submission of a measure or statute by the legislature to the people to vote on
What is a referendum?
the means of removing an elected official from office by popular vote
What is recall?
What Philippines was bought by _______ for twenty million dollars.
What is the United States?
During the Progressive Era many black Americans were treated unfairly by these laws.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
a way for a specified number of voters in a state to propose laws by putting them on the ballot
What is an initiative?
of or pertaining to trade
What is commercial?
The Anti-Imperialist League was formed in 1898 to oppose the annexation of what country?
What is the Philippines?
the execution of a strategy to illegally seize political power in a sudden way
What is coup?
Amercan's trapped the Spanish fleet into what harbor during the Spanish-American War?
What is the harbor of Santiago?