Period 6 and 7 important people

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Across
  1. 3. Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb
  2. 5. African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest
  3. 7. Captain of industry that created a monopoly in oil refineries, he used horizontal integration.
  4. 11. Former U.S General who led the Allied forces in D-Day during WWII who was the Republican candidate for president in the election of 1952 with the slogan "I like Ike".
  5. 12. Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working class. In 1889 she founded Hull House in Chicago, the first private social welfare agency in the U.S., to assist the poor, combat juvenile delinquency and help immigrants learn to speak English.
  6. 14. an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State.
Down
  1. 1. An influential banker and businessman who bought and reorganized companies. His US Steel company would buy Carnegie steel and become the largest business in the world in 1901
  2. 2. 28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act
  3. 4. Wrote The Jungle Exposed dirty conditions in the meatpacking industry, Led to: Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act
  4. 6. Muckraker, wrote how the other half lives showed poverty, disease and crime in NYC
  5. 8. Developed the mass-produced Model-T car, which sold at an affordable price.
  6. 9. 1st black American to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910
  7. 10. Wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company; Revealed the unfair and illegal tactics used by Rockefeller, ended the monopoly
  8. 13. A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.