The Guilded Age

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Across
  1. 3. the first billionaire in american history
  2. 7. the theory that individuals, groups, and people are subject to the same darwanian laws of natural selection as plants and animals
  3. 10. absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level
  4. 12. leading steel producer at the time, first billion-dollar corporation
  5. 13. a strong campaign slogan used by republicans in the presidential election of 1868
  6. 16. a production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence
  7. 17. He had spent majority of his term as governor reforming the government and politics within Ohio
  8. 18. took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States Army troops
  9. 19. elected to presidency in 1880
  10. 20. The combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies
Down
  1. 1. railroad construction company that consisted of many of the insiders of the United Pacific Railway
  2. 2. a republican political machine
  3. 4. a credit system that became widely used by farmers in the United States in the south from the 1860s-1920s
  4. 5. was an American academic and professor at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most influential teachers there.
  5. 6. built his own steel mill in 1870
  6. 8. book by andrew carnegie that argued wealthy people should have an obligation to help give something back to the society
  7. 9. meant that the Democrats reluctantly agreed that Hayes might take office if he ended reconstruction in the South.
  8. 11. a group of people in New York who worked with and for the Burly "Boss" Tweed
  9. 14. new york lawyer who rose to fame by bagging big boss tweed
  10. 15. the largest railroad network in the United States