Urban America

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Across
  1. 1. The percentage of Americans that travelled using horse cars
  2. 2. The first skyscraper was built in this U.S. city
  3. 3. Founder of Hull House in Chicago
  4. 5. According to social darwinism, this group of people is "most fit" for society
  5. 6. Very crowded, multi-family apartments that working class people lived in
  6. 10. The "Oriental School" for Asian immigrants was located in this city
  7. 11. William "___" Tweed went to prison for corruption
  8. 13. The Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese immigrants from coming here for this # of years
  9. 15. Angel Island primarily received immigrants from this continent
  10. 17. This was a location for social gathering where one could drink and receive "free lunch"
  11. 21. The immigrant processing center in New York
  12. 22. First amusement park in New York
  13. 23. The author of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
  14. 24. Castles, chateaus, and villas were housing styles used by __ society
  15. 25. This president didn't believe in using the spoils system
Down
  1. 1. The idea that survival of the fittest can be applied to humans
  2. 4. This term means "appears to sparkle"
  3. 7. James __ invented basketball
  4. 8. According to this act, people had to pass a civil service exam before being given a govt. job
  5. 9. This idea means that people can rise in society ("rags to riches")
  6. 12. The cheap, crowded, dirty section of a ship for travelling immigrants
  7. 14. This wealthy individual believed in philanthropy, or using his money to improve society
  8. 16. The immigrant processing in California
  9. 18. Middle class Americans had this # of live-in servants
  10. 19. Central Pacific Railroad recruited workers from this Asian country
  11. 20. This is an extreme dislike of immigrants