Chapter 13 The Progressive Era

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Across
  1. 2. Law that improved the safety of food and medicine in the US.
  2. 3. Factory workers who had no healthcare, worked long hours.
  3. 5. Political group that fought against racism and hate crimes.
  4. 8. Tests given by the US government to restrict immigration.
  5. 12. Progressive religious group that's devoted to helping the poor and needy.
  6. 13. Political system where government controls goods and services.
  7. 14. Illegal manufacturing and distribution of alcohol.
  8. 15. 1st ever African American to graduate from Harvard.
  9. 16. Allows for the direct election of senators by US Citizens
  10. 19. Era that created the great wealth but increased the pay difference between the rich and poor.
  11. 21. Allowed voters to remove an elected official.
  12. 23. Organization that investigated the welfare of children.
  13. 24. Investigative journalist who helped break up The Standard Oil Company.
  14. 25. Journalists who identified problems in society and worked to reform it.
  15. 27. President who fought for progressive reforms and who was very racist.
  16. 29. Wealthy industrialist who ruled the US economy for half a century.
  17. 30. The novel written by Upton Sinclair that described the meat industry.
  18. 31. The methods of protest used by the Wobblies.
Down
  1. 1. Former slave who believed in helping African Americans gain equality by receiving and education
  2. 4. Middle Class reformers who wanted to help society by improving capitalism.
  3. 6. Supreme Court ruling that separate but equal is constitutional.
  4. 7. Outlawed the making and selling of alcohol in the US.
  5. 9. Enabled citizens to propose a bill.
  6. 10. Laws in the south that led to legal segregation.
  7. 11. The people that benefitted the most from progressivism.
  8. 17. Leader of the American Socialist Party.
  9. 18. Allows voters to choose the candidates for every election.
  10. 20. US business motto
  11. 22. What were passed that increased the courses, school year and doubled the amount of high schools.
  12. 26. Nickname for the Industrial Workers of the World labor Union (IWW)
  13. 28. What happened to workers who got hurt on the job.