gilded age crossword
Across
- 3. Converting iron into steel and revolutionized industrialization(bridged, skyscrapers, railroad)
- 6. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities.
- 9. Major problem during the Gilded Age; opponents pushed to end it and enact laws and compulsory education.
- 11. Founder of Chicago's Hull House, which offered shelter, counseling, and education to immigrants.
- 12. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry by means of vertical integration.
- 14. A small factory where workers work many hours in bad conditions for little pay.
- 16. railroad tycoon.
- 17. Business tycoon who owned Standard Oil and controlled 90% of the oil industry in the late 1800's through horizontal integration.
- 18. Situation in which one company controls the supply of a product or service.
- 19. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agricultural economy due to abundance of natural resources, electricity, and new inventions.
- 20. Risk-taker who establishes new businesses.
Down
- 1. Someone who gives away large sums of money to build libraries, universities, hospitals, etc.
- 2. The large growth of cities from rural areas.
- 4. Economic system where business is privately owned.
- 5. Small companies joined together to form one large company, usually as a monopoly.
- 7. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of people.
- 8. business operate in competition and free from state-control.
- 10. Forcing immigrants and Indians to conform to United States culture.
- 13. Dominated Wall Street and the banking industry.
- 15. Community centers that helped immigrants address the problems of squalid living conditions, disease, illiteracy, and unemployment.