8th Grade SS Benchmark 1 2023-2024

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Across
  1. 1. these places were often unsafe places to work during the gilded age
  2. 3. telephones, electricity, railroads: helped cities grow
  3. 4. government does not interfere with business- no regulations
  4. 5. the weather throughout much of the western frontier
  5. 7. type of monopoly involving takeovers
  6. 8. both populists and progressive wanted government to do this to big business
  7. 12. laws that restricted African Americans rights after 1898
  8. 14. many populists both black and white were these
  9. 16. Plessy vs. Ferguson result
  10. 17. these rights were limited by the 1898 Louisiana constitution
  11. 18. this test had to be passed in order to vote after 1898
  12. 19. white supremacy groups hanging their victims
  13. 20. this river basin attracted many settlers and railroads
  14. 22. helped settlers move west safer and faster
Down
  1. 2. these were broken repeatedly by America when dealing with Natives
  2. 6. laws created to prevent monopolies
  3. 9. this type of opportunity included jobs and attracted immigrants
  4. 10. a person who had to pay plantation owners with a portion of their crop
  5. 11. another example of a need for federal labor laws affected children
  6. 13. they came from Europe and Asia to work in factories
  7. 15. land that Native Americans were forced onto
  8. 21. nativists were concerned they would lose these to new arrivals