US History: Chp 19 - The Gilded Age

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Across
  1. 1. 1st state to grant women the right to vote.
  2. 4. Author of the Pledge of Allegiance.
  3. 5. Began a Presbyterian mission for the Chinese in San Francisco.
  4. 7. Founder of the Hull House.
  5. 8. Most widely used means of urban transit in the late 19th century.
  6. 10. Inventor of the game of basketball.
  7. 12. Father of the modern skyscraper.
  8. 14. Women's organization that did much to combat the use of alcohol.
  9. 16. Two men behind the scheme that led to the stock market crash of 1869.
  10. 17. His traveling circus was called the "Greatest Show on Earth".
  11. 19. Most prolific song writer of the Gilded Age.
  12. 22. Populist Democrat presidential candidate in 1896.
  13. 25. Most dynamic leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
  14. 26. America's first professional baseball team was from here.
  15. 27. This catalog become one of the most read publications in rural America after the Bible.
  16. 28. Author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
  17. 29. Built his department store on the motto, "Give the lady what she wants".
  18. 30. It was the world's largest suspension bridge when it was built.
Down
  1. 2. 3rd US president to be assassinated.
  2. 3. Initial school classes for small children.
  3. 4. Recreational craze of the 1890s.
  4. 6. Pulitzer's fiercest rival; owner of the New York Journal.
  5. 8. Humorist and writer who coined the term "Gilded Age".
  6. 9. 1st Democrat to be elected president after the Civil War.
  7. 10. Father of the American cartoon.
  8. 11. Independent minded Republicans that refused to accept James Blaine as the party nominee in 1884.
  9. 13. Transportation device first used in Boston in 1897.
  10. 15. First newspaper publisher to reach a large audience.
  11. 18. This act of Congress granted each state land for new colleges and universities.
  12. 19. The most important institution in rural America.
  13. 20. 1st woman to receive a medical degree in America.
  14. 21. Owned a Philadelphia store that was considered the precursor to the modern department store.
  15. 23. Elevated trains were given this nickname.
  16. 24. Reclusive poet who wrote nearly 2,000 poems, most of which were published after her death.
  17. 27. Author of In His Steps.
  18. 28. Opened the first mail-order business in 1872.