US History Unit 3 Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. Social _______________ held that society developed much like plant or animal life through a process of evolution in which the most fit and capable enjoyed the greatest material and social success.
  2. 6. One of the first efforts to organize farmers (1867)
  3. 7. ____________ Company: a central corporate entity that controls the operations of multiple companies by holding the majority of stock for each enterprise
  4. 10. A popular Presidential candidate who advocated for both “hard money” and civil service reform
  5. 12. A collection of theories and ideas that sought to understand the underlying changes in the United States during the late nineteenth century
  6. 15. Assassinated by Charles Guiteau
  7. 17. The financial kickback provided to city bosses in exchange for political favors
  8. 19. Author of THE GILDED AGE, which is a reference to the corrupt politics of the post-Civil War era
  9. 22. A theory promoted by John Dewey, who believed that education was key to the search for the truth about ideals and institutions
  10. 26. Patented the telephone
  11. 27. invented in 1867
  12. 28. location of the first ten-story skyscraper
  13. 29. When an official like the President names his friends and supporters to various political posts.
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  1. 1. __________ Affair: the rally and subsequent riot in which several policemen were killed when a bomb was thrown at a peaceful workers rights rally in Chicago in 1886
  2. 2. ____________ Age: The period in American history during which materialism, a quest for personal gain, and corruption dominated both politics and society
  3. 3. A doctrine supported by philosopher William James, which held that Americans needed to experiment and find the truth behind underlying institutions, religions, and ideas in American life, rather than accepting them on faith
  4. 5. ____________’s Army: A march of unemployed Ohioans from Cincinnati who went to Washington, DC, where leaders of the group urged Congress to pass public works legislation for the federal government to hire unemployed workers to build roads and other public projects
  5. 8. A theory of realism that states that the laws of nature and the natural world were the only relevant laws governing humanity
  6. 9. Presidential candidate whose defeat effectively ended the Populist Party
  7. 11. The belief that the church should be as concerned about the conditions of people in the secular world as it was with their afterlife
  8. 13. A portion of the Republican Party that broke away from the Stalwart-versus-Half-Breed debate due to disgust with their candidate’s corruption
  9. 14. A legal arrangement where a small group of trustees have legal ownership of a business that they operate for the benefit of other investors
  10. 16. A group that strongly supported continuation of the current spoils system
  11. 18. ___________ barons: a negative term that connoted the belief that they exploited workers and bent laws to succeed
  12. 20. ____________ Party: A political party formed in 1890 that sought to represent the rights of primarily farmers but eventually all workers in regional and federal elections
  13. 21. A President who made significant steps towards civil service reform
  14. 23. The ownership or control of all enterprises comprising an entire industry
  15. 24. The Great ___________ was the name for the large wave of African Americans who left the South after the Civil War, mostly moving to cities in the Northeast and Upper Midwest.
  16. 25. Thomas Edison's world famous laboratory