Across
- 5. test to show you are certified for the job
- 7. elected officials appoint their friends and supporters to government jobs regardless of their qualifications
- 8. slums and tenaments
- 10. associated with oil
- 11. opportunities; jobs
- 14. civil war; potato famine
- 17. associated with railroads
- 18. allows the direct election of US senators
- 19. Shame of Cities: corruption in the city
- 20. theory advocating minimal government interference in the economy
- 21. practice of one company buying its competitors in order to create a monopoly
- 23. passed after the Jungle
- 24. grants women the right to vote
- 25. exclusive control by one company over an entire industry
Down
- 1. The Jungle: bad meat and the citizens get sick
- 2. associated with steel
- 3. Female journalist: history of the standard oil company
- 4. practice of one company buying multiple stages of production of a service to reduce production costs
- 6. associated with finance and banking
- 9. strengthens the governments ability to break up trust and monopolies
- 12. a tax on imported goods
- 13. journalist/reporter who uncovered wrong doing in politics
- 15. child labor
- 16. third-class accommodations on a steamship
- 22. an area in which one ethic or racial group dominates