Across
- 10. An economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests,
- 12. Informal settlements within cities that have inadequate housing and squalid, miserable living conditions.
- 13. a series of protests that resulted in violence and millions of dollars in damages.
- 15. Newly landed immigrants seeking opportunities and looking for work needed affordable housing.
- 16. American inventor and business magnate and the founder of Ford Motor Co, famous for inventing the Model T automobile
- 20. An American inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world-record 1,093 patents. In addition, he created the world's first industrial research laboratory.
- 24. A spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city
- 26. The act of giving privilege or financial encouragement to a person or organization.
- 27. collective refusal by employees to work under the conditions required by employers.
- 28. The negotiations between union and management representatives over salaries, benefits, and working conditions
- 29. processes that involve different activities that lead to the extraction of raw materials from the earth
- 30. Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone
Down
- 1. A violent strike at the Homestead Works in Pittsburgh over a lock out following a decision to cut wages by nearly 20%.
- 2. The concentration of human populations into discrete areas
- 3. an agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees not to join or remain a member of a labor union as a condition of employment.
- 4. State and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such as the right to vote.
- 5. Successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania and started the oil boom.
- 6. A collection of articles which Steffens had written for McClure's Magazine, it reports on the workings of corrupt political machines in several major cities in the US
- 7. Accomplished inventor and a painter, he developed an electric telegraph and then co-developed morse Code
- 8. American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.
- 9. May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.
- 11. Fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions.
- 14. Land, labor, and capital resources, and entrepreneurship
- 17. The use of a blast of hot air to purify molten iron and convert it into steel.
- 18. The federal legislation that created a system in which federal employees were chosen based upon competitive exams.
- 19. An organization linked to a political party that often controlled local government.
- 21. An economic and political system that demands state ownership and control of the fundamental means of production and the distribution of wealth.
- 22. Rail networks, bridges, energy systems, wastewater services, aviation networks, roadways, drinking water systems
- 23. American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency
- 25. Highlighted the dangerous working and living conditions for families working in the meatpacking industry in early 20th century Chicago and focuses on an immigrant family from Lithuania