Across
- 1. / widespread cultural creed that glorified customary functions of the homemaker
- 3. / Powerful city machine that the Irish gained control of in NY
- 6. / Irish miner's union that rocked PA's coal districts in the 1860s and 1870s
- 10. / In 1838, a shortsighted clerk resigned from this because they complained all worthwhile inventions had already been created
- 13. / structure built in 1825 that linked Great Lakes and Hudson River; diverted traffic away from Mississippi
- 15. / Supreme court ruling that stated labor unions weren't illegal if their methods were "honorable and peaceful"
- 17. / semi-secret society that fought rapacious landlords in Ireland; In the US, it helped the downtrodden
- 18. / advocate for the preservation of nature; proposed the national park theory
- 19. / religious group that was heavily persecuted during the period of mass immigration; built a separate educational system in the 1840s
- 20. / principle that permitted individual investors, in cases of legal claims or bankruptcy, to risk no more than their own share of the corporation's stock.
Down
- 2. / popular lecture essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson that reflected the individualistic outlook that Pioneers had
- 4. / inventor of the telegraph; his invention helped revolutionize communication
- 5. / relentless foe of slavery & public corruption; one of the German liberals who elevated the US political life
- 7. / known as the "Father of the Factory System"
- 8. / political party that proposed rigid restrictions on immigration and naturalization; was also called Order of the Star Spangled Banner
- 9. / crude machine that separated cotton faster and was 50 times more effective than the handpicking process
- 11. / Aggressive and needles exploitation of western natural bounty
- 12. / Inventor of the cotton gin; born in MA and moved to GA to study law
- 14. / the city that was dubbed "The Queen of the South"
- 16. / nation known as the "land of freedom and opportunity"; attracted thousands of European immigrants in the 1850s and 1860s
