Gilded Age

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Across
  1. 4. The Company that John D Rockefeller started
  2. 7. poor crowded and run-down urban neighborhoods
  3. 8. The home country of Jacob Riis
  4. 9. The country that gave the United States the Statue of Liberty
  5. 12. the name associated with America in the late 1800's, referring to the extravagant wealth of a few and the terrible poverty that lay underneath
  6. 14. a crowded workplace with very poor and unacceptable working conditions.
  7. 16. a building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety
  8. 18. shirtwaist The fire that killed 146 sweatshop workers (mostly young women)
  9. 19. Last name of the muckraker who used photojournalism
  10. 20. The man who got rich off of Oil
Down
  1. 1. Inventor of the light bulb
  2. 2. The city that most European Immigrants settled in after arriving in the United States.
  3. 3. A nickname given to Reformers
  4. 4. Last name of the Muckraker who wrote the book "The Jungle"
  5. 5. A person who moves to another country looking for a better life
  6. 6. Thomas Nast's enemy and "Big Tim” Sullivan's Boss
  7. 10. The invention that Thomas Edison is most well known for
  8. 11. a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention
  9. 13. the belief that those born in a country are superior to immigrants
  10. 15. The term that means the time of “positive changes”
  11. 17. The island where immigrants landed on first to be inspected before entering the United States
  12. 21. The poet that wrote the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty