Unit 3: Westward Expansion & Industrializatio
Across
- 2. – Mining using simple tools like pans and shovels.
- 3. Darwinism – Belief that the strongest businesses survive.
- 5. Integration – Buying out competitors in the same industry.
- 6. – Mining using high-pressure water to break rock.
- 9. – One company controlling an entire market.
- 13. Carnegie – Leader of the steel industry.
- 14. Standard – Money backed only by gold.
- 16. – Inventor of the light bulb and many other devices.
- 18. Mobilier – Railroad company involved in a bribery scandal.
- 20. Bargaining – Workers negotiating as a group.
- 23. – Movement supporting common people over elites.
- 24. Integration – Controlling all steps of production.
- 27. – Founder of Standard Oil monopoly.
- 29. – Skilled worker union led by Samuel Gompers.
- 31. – Banker who created U.S. Steel.
- 33. – House made of dirt or sod.
- 35. – Farmer group that supported farming communities.
- 36. Latimer – Inventor who improved the light bulb filament.
- 37. – Hardy cattle with long horns.
Down
- 1. Railroad – Railroad linking the East and West coasts.
- 4. – Moving cattle long distances to railroad towns.
- 7. Farms – Very large single-crop farms.
- 8. Process – Fast, cheap steel-making method.
- 10. Acts – Laws giving land to states for agricultural colleges.
- 11. – Union for unskilled and radical workers.
- 12. – Mining done deep underground in rock.
- 14. Plains – Large flat grassland in central North America.
- 15. Commerce Act – Law regulating railroads.
- 17. Antitrust Act – Law banning monopolies and business restraints.
- 19. – African American migrant who moved to Kansas.
- 20. Lode – Large silver discovery in Nevada.
- 21. – Money backed by gold and silver.
- 22. Alliances – Farmer groups that educated and organized for reform.
- 25. Act – Free western land for settlers who improved it.
- 26. of Fort Laramie – Agreement forcing the Sioux onto a reservation.
- 28. – Idea that government should not interfere in business.
- 30. – Group of companies controlled by one board.
- 32. – Blending into another culture.
- 34. Act – Law dividing Native American land into individual plots.