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Across
  1. 4. Established the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities and established a five-member Interstate Commerce Commission for that purpose
  2. 7. Led the Cigar Makers' International Union to join with other craft unions in 1886
  3. 9. A company's taking over its suppliers and distributors and transportation systems to gain total control over the quality and cost of its product
  4. 13. When companies producing similar products merge
  5. 14. A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869
Down
  1. 1. Invented the typewriter in 1867
  2. 2. Technique involved injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities
  3. 3. Built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the Illinois praire
  4. 4. Organized by a group of radical unionists and socialists in Chicago; also known as the Wobblies
  5. 5. Established the world's first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey
  6. 6. Construction company formed by stockholders in the Union Pacific Railroad in 1864
  7. 7. made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries
  8. 8. Most prominent organizer in the women's labor movement
  9. 10. One of the first industrial moguls to make his own fortune
  10. 11. Established Corporations such as the Standard Oil Company
  11. 12. Successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania