Review_Gilded & Progressive Eras

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Across
  1. 5. Journalist who who exposed lynching of and mistreatment of Blacks in the South.
  2. 6. This incident resulted in the death of about 150 women in their workplace. It eventually led to the passage of laws regulating conditions in sweatshops.
  3. 7. The banning of alcohol, which conservative middle class Americans believed would reduce crime, poverty, and violence in the cities.
  4. 9. Law which gave white settlers chance to own 160 acres of land in the west if they lived on the land, improved it, and paid a small registration fee.
  5. 11. Law which eliminated Native groups’ tribal use of land, and set up individual family heads with an allotment of 160 free acres.
  6. 12. This major technology helped close the western frontier and united the east and west, transporting people and goods, and helping cities grow.
  7. 14. She set up Hull House for immigrants and poor women and children in urban areas.
  8. 16. Black leader who believed that Blacks should focus on getting vocational training and a good job to improve their life.
  9. 18. Groups that collectively bargain with the management for better conditions, hours, and pay for workers.
  10. 19. Policies for Natives that required their children attend boarding schools to become Americanized, learn English and strictly adopt American culture and customs.
Down
  1. 1. These groups developed in cities to get the poor to support their own candidates. They provided services in exchange for votes, and misused tax money.
  2. 2. Law which prohibited sale of contaminated or misbranded meat/meat products.
  3. 3. The Supreme Court that upheld segregated public spaces as long as the public spaces are equal in quality.
  4. 4. Journalists who exposed major problems in urban society, and advocated for reforms to improve cities
  5. 7. Law which which prohibited the sale of contaminated or misbranded food and drugs across states.
  6. 8. Whites on the west coast wanted to prevent immigrants from Asia from accessing jobs, so they convinced the government to pass this first law banning immigration against a specific group.
  7. 10. He wrote The Jungle in 1906, which exposed the unsafe and unclean working conditions in the meat packaging industry.
  8. 13. They wrote many articles that exposed the corruption and unethical business practices of Standard Oil.
  9. 15. He taught President Roosevelt the importance of protecting the environment and natural resources. He convinced the president to create more natural parks
  10. 17. Leader who believed that Blacks must take immediate legal action to demand for full equality.