Era 6 Review

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Across
  1. 2. / A business that has no competition
  2. 5. / Backing money with gold and silver
  3. 6. Laws that farmers pushed for that would help their situation with high interest rates and railroad corruption
  4. 7. / The name people had for Capitalists that viewed them as taking advantage of the people
  5. 10. / Political cartoonist who tried to change corrupt politics with political cartoons
  6. 12. / Inventor who is called “Wizard of Menlo Park”
  7. 13. / Where everyone rushed for gold
  8. 15. / Coined by Mark Twain, means Gold Plated
  9. 16. / Capitalist who manufactured gunpowder and other chemicals
  10. 17. / Freeing the slaves
  11. 19. / Most famous political boss
  12. 21. / Business model that requires you to own all the different stages of production
  13. 23. / The concept that God’s favor is on Americans and therefore it is their destiny to move westward
  14. 24. / One of Grant’s scandals that involved Congressmen being paid off by distillers to evade taxes
  15. 26. A group of people who control the politics of a city/town
  16. 29. / Capitalist who made his money in candy, specifically chocolate
  17. 30. / One of Grant’s scandals that involved the railroads creating false stock prices
  18. 31. / One of Grant’s scandals that involved several people close to him exploiting gold from the US Treasury
  19. 32. / Transportation that allowed farmers in the Midwest to transport products to the major cities in the Northeast
  20. 35. / Government intervention to break up trusts, such as Standard Oil trust owned by Rockefeller
  21. 36. / Act that allowed people to have free land in the Midwest (160 acres)
  22. 38. / Towns that emerged from railroad stops in the Midwest to pick up cattle
  23. 39. / Capitalist who made his money in meatpacking
  24. 40. / Business model that requires you to own all your competition
Down
  1. 1. / Farming lifestyle
  2. 3. / Groups of people who congregate together to improve working conditions
  3. 4. / Inventor of the sleeping car
  4. 6. Political bribery or passing legislation in order to benefit only one person
  5. 8. / Lead the American Federation of Labor movement
  6. 9. / Inventor of air brakes and moving electricity long distances
  7. 11. / The reason a high number of Irish immigrants came to the US in the 1840s-1860s
  8. 14. / Government regulation that create helped farmers combat the outrageous railroad prices
  9. 18. / Invention that allowed cattle ranchers to keep their cattle on their property- ended the open range
  10. 20. / Political movement that grew out of the Grange movement
  11. 22. / Capitalist who made his money in oil
  12. 25. / The growth of cities
  13. 27. / Capitalist who made his money in steel
  14. 28. / Old immigrants being prejudice/racist to new immigrants
  15. 33. / Government regulation that kept people in power from hiring their buddies but made them hire people who were qualified
  16. 34. / Capitalist who made his money in railroads
  17. 37. Act passed by Congress that demanded the Native Americans assimilate into the new American culture