US History
Across
- 2. Amendment (1913) Legalized the federal income tax
- 4. Journalism journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
- 7. freedom from punishment
- 10. Reserve Act Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System
- 12. Cabot Lodge an American Republican Congressman and historian from Massachusetts.
- 13. Writers who exposed corruption and abuses in politics, business, meat-packing, child labor, and more, primarily in the first decade of the twentieth century
- 15. Day O'Connor After her 1981 appointment by President Ronald Reagan, she became the first female Court justice.
- 16. Darwinism the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
- 18. Of Paris signed in Paris by representatives of King George III
- 19. Carnegie An American industrial leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- 21. Strike (1892) Shuts down the factory and locks out its employees
- 22. Fourteen Points a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
- 23. Tariff Tariff of 1913 which, in addition to lowering and even eliminating some tariffs
- 24. Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
Down
- 1. Anti-Trust Act The first law to restrict monopolistic trusts and business combinations
- 3. Act Proposal for railroad regulation enacted in 1906 that extended the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission
- 5. vote to bring charges of serious crimes against a president
- 6. Strike Strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company
- 8. v Ferguson upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private
- 9. Bellamy an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward
- 11. Houses Product of the late nineteenth-century movement to offer a broad array of social services in urban immigrant neighborhoods
- 14. Act A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers
- 17. Addams known as the "mother" of social work
- 20. d Rockefeller An American businessman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries