CROSSWORDS PUZZLE

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  1. 4. helped build the formidable American steel industry
  2. 5. the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better.
  3. 7. He designed and manufactured the _____ sleeping car and founded a company town.
  4. 9. light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, as well as improving the telegraph and telephone were some of his inventions.
  5. 10. first name of the one who invented the first practical typewriter and introduced the keyboard layout that is familiar today.
  6. 13. one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
  7. 14. helped invent modern oil-drilling techniques.
  8. 15. Credit _____, scandal of 1872-1873 damaged the careers of several Gilded Age politicians.
  9. 17. a case decided on March 1, 1877, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held 7-2 that states may regulate the use of private property when such regulation becomes necessary for the public good.
  10. 18. a fiery orator and fearless organizer for the Mine Workers during the first two decades of the 20th century.
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  1. 1. It allowed steel to become the dominant material for large construction, and made it much more cost effective.
  2. 2. is the founder of the American Federation of Labor.
  3. 3. railroad that would link the United States from east to west.
  4. 6. created an _______ Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry.
  5. 8. founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world's wealthiest men and a major philanthropist.
  6. 11. ______ Antitrust Act refers to a landmark U.S. law that banned businesses from colluding or merging to form a monopoly.
  7. 12. well known for inventing the telephone.
  8. 16. a labor organization that sought to organize workers along the lines of industrial unions rather than the specialized trade, or craft, unions of the American Federation of Labor.(INITIALS)
  9. 19. strengthening Social Security and private pensions, ensuring fair tax policies, and making high-quality, affordable health care available to all. (INITIALS)