Chapter 16 - Uncovering Problems in the 20th Century

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Across
  1. 2. machines, an organization consisting of full-time politicians whose main goal was to retain political power and the money and influence that went with it
  2. 5. the practice of politicians giving jobs to friends and supporters
  3. 8. Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel about unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants
  4. 9. Act, an 1883 federal law that limited patronage by creating a civil service commission to administer exams for certain nonmilitary government jobs
  5. 10. a journalist who wrote about social, environmental, and political problems Americans faced in the early 1900s
  6. 11. industries, businesses that take mineral resources from the earth
Down
  1. 1. the facilities or equipment required for an organization or community to function
  2. 3. Hall, a political machine in New York City
  3. 4. the growth of cities
  4. 6. movement, a reform movement calling for moderation in drinking alcohol
  5. 7. service, nonmilitary government employees