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