Chapter 13
Across
- 2. The right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval
- 4. Federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum railroad rates
- 7. Used his office to attack the way political parties ran their conventions
- 12. Wrote the book The Jungle dealing with the conditions of food production
- 13. Wrote the book The Bitter Cry of the Children about child labor conditions
- 17. The right to vote
- 19. A plan in which a city’s government is divided into different departments with different functions, each placed under the control of a commissioner
- 21. Former American Railway Union leader won million of votes as the American Socialist Party candidate for president in 1912
- 22. Laws banning the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol
- 23. US Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat
- 26. Officially established the prohibition of alcohol in the US
- 27. A Quaker who headed NAWSA’s congressional committee
- 28. Theodore Roosevelt’s promise of fair and equal treatment for all
- 29. A journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society
Down
- 1. Reported on vote stealing and other corrupt practices of urban political machines
- 3. Published a series of articles critical of the Standard Oil Company
- 5. In 1874 a group of women formed this group. By 1911 this group had nearly 250,000 members
- 6. important US trust form in 1901
- 8. Apointed by Teddy Roosevelt to head the United States forest service
- 9. Advocated the moderation or elimination of alcohol
- 10. Nearly 150,000 workers walked out of eastern PA’s anthracite mines demanding a raise
- 11. The law passed for the right for women to vote
- 14. The right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office
- 15. A political movement that crossed party lines which believed that industrialism and urbanization had created many social problems
- 16. a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course
- 18. The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by legislature
- 20. Vote held by all members of political party to decide their candidate for public office
- 24. DrugAct Preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of falsely labeled food and drugs
- 25. Described the poverty, disease, and crime that afflicted many immigrant neighborhoods in NYC
- 28. The idea that government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole