The Progressive Era

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 banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol, known as the "Noble Experiment" it was later repealed by the 21 amendment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