The Progressive Era

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Across
  1. 1. Wanted black equal rights immediately and founded the NAACP
  2. 3. Allows a citizen to reject or accept a law passed by the legislature
  3. 5. Gave Congress the power to tax income (1913)
  4. 6. Abolished slavery
  5. 8. Loophole for illiterate and or poor whites
  6. 10. Woodrow Wilson's program to place government controls on corporations in order to benefit small businesses
  7. 13. She was one of the leaders of the woman's rights movement and temperance movements, advocated the 19th amendment and arrested for trying to vote.
  8. 16. Annual tax in order to vote
  9. 18. Extended the right to vote to woman in federal or state elections (1920)
  10. 19. Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights
  11. 20. Exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices
  12. 21. Banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol
  13. 22. Voters can remove public officials by forcing them to participate in another election before term is up
Down
  1. 2. African American leader who wanted black and white to live separately, but work together economically.
  2. 4. Condition of sharecroppers who could not pay off their debts and therefore could not leave the property they worked
  3. 7. Early 20th century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life.
  4. 9. Calls for the direct election of senator's by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures (1913)
  5. 11. Journalists who wrote about corruption in big companies
  6. 12. Gave voters the right to introduce a bill in the state of legislature
  7. 14. Economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationship between companies and workers
  8. 15. Author that described the disgusting conditions in the meat packing industry
  9. 17. Declared that all persons born in the United States were entitled to equal rights (citizenship) regardless of the race and their rights are protected by both the state and national levels
  10. 18. Declared that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race color or precious condition of servitude