Across
- 3. wrote rags to riches stories
- 5. served as community centers and political centers
- 7. founded the Tuskegee Institute (Section 4)
- 10. a series of variety acts like acrobats, gymnasts, and dancers
- 14. wealthy people use their great fortune to further social progress
- 16. America's favorite pastime
- 19. sport that became popular on private colleges and universities
- 20. African American scientist who made the peanut the second most lucrative crop in the South (Section 4)
- 21. movement in art and literature to portray people in realistic situations
- 22. women's college
- 24. red stockings first salaried baseball team
- 26. women's college
- 27. reformer who led the settlement house movement
- 28. king of Ragtime
Down
- 1. author of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 2. Young Men's Christian Association
- 4. darwinism human society evolved through competition
- 6. of wealth carnegie's philosophy that wealthy Americans should engage in philanthropy
- 8. house institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided community services
- 9. age when society looked successful but beneath the surface lay corruption poverty and crime
- 11. causing someone to acquire American traits and characteristics
- 12. women's college
- 13. the belief that no matter how humble your origins you can always rise in society
- 15. Ivy League University
- 17. island one of the most popular amusement parks in New York
- 18. invented the game of basketball
- 23. popular music of the time
- 25. Ivy League University