The Progressive Era
Across
- 3. a muckraker who created a pictorial book called How the Other Half Lives which exposed how the poor lived in New York City tenements
- 7. Supreme Court case that ruled "separate but equal"; legalized segregation
- 8. a civil rights activists who believed that African Americans should demand political and social rights and founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), a civil rights organization
- 10. the right to vote
- 11. granted African American males the right to vote
- 13. abolished slavery
- 14. - an 1882 law that prohibited Chinese from immigrating to the United States
- 15. women were granted suffrage
- 17. banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol, known as the "Noble Experiment" it was later repealed by the 21 amendment
- 18. a novel by muckraker Upton Sinclair that exposed the horrors of the meat packing industry
- 19. muckraker who wrote a book called The History of Standard Oil Company, to expose John D Rockefeller's Robber Baron ways
- 20. the infamous leader of Tammany Hall, a political machine in New York City
Down
- 1. African American educator who believed that equality for the races was best achieved through vocational education
- 2. state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
- 4. granted African Americans citizenship
- 5. an organization, headed by a single boss that commands enough votes to maintain political control of a city, county, or state
- 6. known as the " trustbuster, " he was the president of the United States who regulated trusts and monopolies and promoted conservation (protecting nature)
- 9. - movement dedicated to promoting moderation and complete abstinence in the use of alcohol
- 12. a journalist during the Progressive Era that tried to bring about reform by exposing negative aspects of society
- 16. founder of the settlement house movement in the United States, she operated the Hull House in Chicago, IL