Gilded Age and Progressivism

4. President who ended Reconstruction in 1877.
7. Laws to stop monopolies and trusts from being unfair.
9. Trains and tracks that connected the country for trade and travel.
10. The shift to factories and machines instead of farming.
11. A law (1890) to break up trusts and monopolies.
14. Workers joining together to demand better pay and conditions.
17. A tax on imported goods to protect U.S. businesses.
21. The ban on alcohol to reduce crime and social issues.
22. When one company controls a whole industry, like oil or steel.
25. Letting nations choose their own governments.
28. A writer who exposed bad things like corruption or dirty factories.
30. A movement to improve life with reforms and government action.
31. President who made big reforms and led during World War I.
33. The right to vote, especially for women in 1920.
35. President who filed lots of antitrust lawsuits.
37. Let people vote for senators instead of states picking them (1913).
38. A tax on what people earn to fund the government.
40. World War I (1914–1918), which the U.S. joined in 1917.
41. When people move to the U.S. from other countries for jobs or a better life.

1. Using science to make work and life more efficient.
2. When a country takes over or influences other lands.
3. A rich business leader who used tough tactics to get wealthy.
5. A war (1898) that made the U.S. a world power.
6. Allowed the government to tax people’s income (1913).
8. President during early Reconstruction, known for scandals.
12. Dishonest actions, like politicians taking bribes.
13. Protecting nature, like forests and parks, for the future.
15. Changes to make society better, like safer workplaces.
16. Doing things in the best, least wasteful way.
18. Rich people giving money to help society, like building libraries.
19. A group created to watch businesses and keep them fair. (Acronym)
20. A time (1890s–1920s) when people worked to fix society’s problems.
23. The growth of cities as people moved from rural areas.
24. A time in the late 1800s when America grew rich but had hidden problems.
26. A group of companies working together to control an industry.
27. A waterway built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
29. The war (1861–1865) between the North and South over slavery and power.
32. An agency (1916) to protect parks like Yosemite.
34. A law (1906) to make food and medicine safer. (Acronym)
36. The time after the Civil War when the North rebuilt the South.
39. President who busted trusts and saved nature.