Gilded Age Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. The novel The Octopus, about the railroad, was written by this man
  2. 5. Owner of U.S. Steel
  3. 7. Wrote the novel The Age of Innocence
  4. 10. His novel How the Other Half Lives documented the lives of New Yorkers living in extreme poverty
  5. 12. unsafe working conditions, and dangerous
  6. 13. in big business
  7. 14. It means “new rich” in French – “nouveau _ _ _ _ _”
  8. 15. Owner of Standard Oil
Down
  1. 1. A group of authors who tried to shock readers to expose
  2. 2. Author of The Jungle
  3. 4. Newspaper writing that was known to be sensational and shocking-"______"Journalism
  4. 6. She wrote The History of Standard Oil
  5. 8. Publisher of the newspaper The New York Journal
  6. 9. He came up with the term “Gilded Age” for the late
  7. 11. Called the “novel of _ _ _ _ _ _ _,” these described the lives, customs, mindset, and problems of the wealthiest people in society
  8. 13. Publisher of the newspaper The New York World