The Gilded Age

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Across
  1. 2. American politician and 'boss' of Tammany Hall in New York City
  2. 3. Nationwide railroad strike in the U.S. in 1984; pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman company, the main railroads, and the federal government; response to reduction in wages
  3. 4. Began in the 1870s when people flocked to the cities
  4. 5. Written by Andrew Carnegie; describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich
  5. 7. United States inventor; inventions include phonograph and incandescent light bulb
  6. 10. The absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level
  7. 11. A form of political corruption; the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain
  8. 12. Statues that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges
  9. 13. Federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit
  10. 14. Island in New York Bay that was the principal immigration station for the United States
Down
  1. 1. The combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies
  2. 6. A policy that allows businesses to operate with very little interference from the government
  3. 8. Secret workingmen's organization formed in 1896 to defend the interests of laborers; led by Uriah Smith Stephens
  4. 9. A steel-making process in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air
  5. 10. Settlement house in the U.S. co-founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr