Big Money, Immigration, and Urbanization

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Across
  1. 2. believe in “survival of the fittest”—the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better
  2. 5. provided that federal government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that government employees be selected through competitive exams
  3. 6. the Supreme Court interpreted the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which was designed to limit the dangerous growth of corporate monopoly in the last quarter of the 19th century
  4. 9. an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  5. 10. assured reliance on the character or truth of someone
  6. 12. was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace
  7. 13. an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests
  8. 14. an American politician most notable for being the political boss of Tammany Hall
  9. 16. founder of the Standard Oil Company
  10. 19. informal, unwritten agreements between two parties to undertake a transaction or other commitment
  11. 20. came largely from southern and eastern Europe
  12. 21. a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, that was the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States.
  13. 22. prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.
  14. 24. the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrant
  15. 26. a single seller in the market
  16. 27. an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures
  17. 29. authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them
  18. 30. a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering
  19. 31. the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies
  20. 32. the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration
  21. 33. The dumbbell shape allowed for air shafts between tenements
  22. 34. was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
Down
  1. 1. price-fixing, low-quality products, lack of incentive for innovation, and cost-push inflation
  2. 3. an island in San Francisco Bay. The entire island is included within Angel Island State Park, administered by California State Parks.
  3. 4. the support given by a patron
  4. 7. was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century
  5. 8. a business strategy in which one company grows its operations at the same level in an industry
  6. 11. helped build the formidable American steel industry
  7. 15. Vanderbilt shipping and railroad tycoon
  8. 17. the group European immigrants who “came mainly from Northern and Central Europe (Germany and England) in early 1800 particularly between 1820 and 1890 they were mostly protestant
  9. 18. an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States
  10. 23. made businesses more profitable and stable
  11. 25. argued that extremely wealthy Americans like himself had a responsibility to spend their money in order to benefit the greater good
  12. 28. an American oil production marketing company