Writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in governement or business.

Community center organized at the turn of the twentieth century to provide social services to the urban poor.

Election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.

Process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot.

Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by legislature.

Process by whhich voters can remove elected officials from office before their terms end.

Movement aimed at stoppeing alcohol abuse and the problems created by it.

Organized groups of Mexican Americans that make loans and provide legal assistance to other members of their community.

A tax on imported or exported goods.

To make rules or laws to govern or control.

A person who buys and uses goods and services.

Political, military, and economic domination of strong nations over weaker territoriest.

Economoy in a colony where the colonizing country removed raw materials and shipped them back home to benefit its own economy.

Aggressive nationalism support for warlike foreign policy.

A region dominated and controlled by an outside power.

"Big stick" Diplomacy

Theodore Roosevelt's policy of creating and using, when necessary, a strong military to achieve America's goals.

Woodrow Wilson's statement that the U.S. would not use force to assert influence in the world, but would instead work to promote human rights.

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Topic 4 vocab us his

Term	Definition
Muckraker	Writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in governement or business.
Settlement house	Community center organized at the turn of the twentieth century to provide social services to the urban poor.
Direct primary	Election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.
Initiative	Process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot.
Referendum	Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by legislature.
Recall	Process by whhich voters can remove elected officials from office before their terms end.
Temperance movement	Movement aimed at stoppeing alcohol abuse and the problems created by it.
Suffrage	The right to vote.
Mutualists	Organized groups of Mexican Americans that make loans and provide legal assistance to other members of their community.
Tariffs	A tax on imported or exported goods.
Regulate	To make rules or laws to govern or control.
Consumer	A person who buys and uses goods and services.
Imperialism	Political, military, and economic domination of strong nations over weaker territoriest.
Extractive economies	Economoy in a colony where the colonizing country removed raw materials and shipped them back home to benefit its own economy.
Jingoism	Aggressive nationalism support for warlike foreign policy.
Insurrection	Rebellion.
Guerrilla warrfare	Nontraditional combat methods.
Spheres of influence	A region dominated and controlled by an outside power.
"Big stick" Diplomacy	Theodore Roosevelt's policy of creating and using, when necessary, a strong military to achieve America's goals.
"Moral Dioplomacy"	Woodrow Wilson's statement that the U.S. would not use force to assert influence in the world, but would instead work to promote human rights.

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