The Gilded Age

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Across
  1. 3. This guy created the term "Gilded Age"
  2. 6. Giving back to the community. Many industrialists did this during the end of their lives/careers
  3. 7. This industry defined Cornelius Vanderbilt
  4. 9. A business that cornered a specific market; they have exclusive control over a product/resource
  5. 11. Carnegie's Steel Company
  6. 12. The Railroad Tycoon
  7. 14. The idea of changing things (society, economy, government) in a new or better way
  8. 15. This dominated NY through corruption.
  9. 17. These people commonly worked dangerous jobs in order to make ends meet.
  10. 19. The Steel Tycoon
  11. 20. The Biggest Oil Monopoly of the Guilded Age
Down
  1. 1. The Tycoon of Standard Oil
  2. 2. Book written by Upton Sinclair that described the terrible quality of working conditions and food during the Gilded Age
  3. 3. People that exposed corruption through literature and journalism.
  4. 4. JP Morgan bailed the US out of this (Or at least helped).
  5. 5. Railroad workers typically died from these.
  6. 8. This process helped mass produce steel.
  7. 10. This strike turned violent when private mercenaries shot at striking laborers
  8. 13. The names used for the big tycoons of the time
  9. 16. Corrupt ring or NY politicians. Helped immigrants.
  10. 18. Banker that used his immense wealth to dominate industry in America