The Industrial Era and Gilded Age

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Across
  1. 3. Legal arrangement consolidating businesses to limit competition.
  2. 5. Cramped housing for urban workers and immigrant families.
  3. 7. Morgan: Influential banker who reorganized industries and financed U.S. infrastructure.
  4. 8. Baron: Industrialists accused of exploiting workers and corrupting markets.
  5. 9. Policy advocating minimal government intervention in business.
  6. 10. Darwinism: Ideology justifying inequality as natural and inevitable.
  7. 13. Organized labor action aimed at forcing employer concessions.
  8. 16. Union: Collective organization advocating for worker protections and pay.
  9. 17. Carnegie: Industrialist who dominated the steel industry.
  10. 18. Line: Innovation that revolutionized mass production in factories.
  11. 20. Tweed: Notorious leader of New York’s most powerful political machine.
  12. 22. Rapid expansion of cities during the 19th century.
  13. 23. Island: West Coast facility scrutinizing Asian immigrants.
  14. 24. Practice of using wealth to advance social causes.
  15. 25. D. Rockefeller: Founder of Standard Oil, once the world’s wealthiest man.
Down
  1. 1. Railroad: Engineering marvel linking East and West in the U.S.
  2. 2. Process: Steelmaking method that reduced costs and increased output.
  3. 4. Economic system driven by private investment and competition.
  4. 6. Vanderbilt: Entrepreneur known for consolidating railroads.
  5. 11. Large-scale influx of people seeking opportunities in a new land.
  6. 12. Ford: Pioneer of affordable automobiles through innovative production techniques.
  7. 14. Island: Gateway for European immigrants arriving in New York Harbor.
  8. 15. Shift from hand production to machines, fueling economic growth.
  9. 19. A market structure with a single dominating entity.
  10. 21. Age: Era was marked by surface wealth and deep social inequalities.