2.2-2.3 Mining & Farming/Corruption Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. owed his election to a secret deal to end Reconstruction
  2. 4. engaged in cronyism, gave high level cabinet posts to untrustworthy friends, used their positions to expand their businesses, his vice president was even investigated and implicated in a scheme to steal profits from the Union Pacific Railroad, lacked the will to root out corruption during his administration
  3. 9. method developed by parties because presidents rarely campaigned, often run by “bosses” or a small group of people in large cities, worked by winning the loyalty of large immigrant groups by promising jobs, housing or solutions to problems they have
  4. 11. includes federal jobs in the executive branch, under this system most workers would get their jobs due to their expertise and maintain them regardless of which political party won the election, Garfield was assassinated for implementing these reform efforts
  5. 12. continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the eastern and western coasts
  6. 14. wide stretches of land given to farmers by the government when they moved westward, a way to feed the need for railroads to transport goods, incentivised railroads owned by private companies
Down
  1. 1. act that established a Civil Service Commission, if you wanted to work for the government you had to take a test
  2. 2. act passed as a response to mobs of white people who attacked Chinese workers saying they took “white jobs,” prohibited all immigration of chinese laborers
  3. 5. system first used by Andrew Jackson in which politicians awarded government jobs to loyal party workers with little regard for their qualifications
  4. 6. the invention of this made it possible to fence in huge tracts of land
  5. 7. act that provided a legal method for settlers to acquire and settle in property in the West, the government offered 160 acres of farm land to anyone willing to live on the land for 5 years dig a well and build a road
  6. 8. this group of people faced a lot of discrimination and lost much of their land to Americans after cession
  7. 10. known as the “boss,” plundered millions of dollars from the New York City’s treasury
  8. 13. a tax imposed by the government on imports or exports of goods, Republicans sought these to protect businesses, Democrats represented farmers and consumers hurt by them
  9. 15. the activity or business of breeding cattle on a ranch that people started to do outside of mining