The Gilded Age

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Across
  1. 3. Another name for the Industrial Workers of the World
  2. 4. The period in America during the late 1800s that refers to the prioritization of wealth
  3. 10. Earliest nationwide farmer organization aka the Patrons of Husbandry
  4. 11. Name of Rockefeller’s company that was an example of horizontal integration
  5. 15. Person who marched into Washington DC with unemployed workers to demand action from Congress
  6. 16. A workers’ strike and bombing that took place in Chicago, leading to four wrongful executions
  7. 17. The name of Carnegie’s company that was an example of vertical integration
  8. 18. Merging of competing businesses in the same industry
  9. 19. One of the largest industries in America that employed mainly women
  10. 20. The standard popularized by the Populists, never became a part of the economy
Down
  1. 1. The bill that gave the ICC the rights to impose high taxes on the railroad industries
  2. 2. The strike at one of Carnegie’s steel mills, resulting in the death of steelworkers and Pinkerton agents
  3. 5. Presidential nominee for the Populists and Democrats
  4. 6. AKA the Bread and Roses strike, one of the most successful strikes
  5. 7. Supreme Court case that ruled in favor of the state, allowing state governments to regulate private entities for “the common good”
  6. 8. The bill passed in 1906 that expanded the Elkins Act and strengthened the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
  7. 9. advocate for women’s suffrage and speaker for the Populist party
  8. 12. The party formed in the 1890s to advocate for the rights of farmers and industrial workers
  9. 13. A journalist from California who proposed the single tax movement
  10. 14. The person who helped stabilize the nation’s economy by offering President Cleveland $65 million in gold in exchange for government bonds