history vocab

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Across
  1. 3. Age / period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s
  2. 4. unions / an organized association of workers
  3. 6. / the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
  4. 8. Antitrust Act / a federal statute that prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace.
  5. 10. barons / a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices
  6. 11. Act / A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
  7. 14. Factor / A term of art referring to the various factors
  8. 15. / a person who advocates the theory that concepts mental capacities
  9. 17. Act a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
  10. 18. Americans / a member of any of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America, especially those indigenous to what is now the continental US
  11. 20. Commerce Act / federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry
  12. 21. / the action of making someone or something morally depraved or the state of being so.
Down
  1. 1. bosses / person who wields the power over a particular political region or constituency
  2. 2. / the action of making a person or thing American in character or nationality.
  3. 5. / publicly recommend or support
  4. 7. / the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
  5. 9. regulation / a law that controls the way that a business can operate
  6. 12. / the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
  7. 13. Factor / something that makes people want to leave a place or escape from a particular situation
  8. 16. Plains / a vast area of plains to the east of the Rocky Mountains in North America, extending from the valleys of the Mackenzie River in Canada to southern Texas.
  9. 19. Indian Citizenship Act / an act that granted citizenship to all Native Americans