Gilded Age People and Ideas

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Across
  1. 2. founded the American Railway Union and ran for president five times
  2. 4. made the telephone (bell telephone company which is now AT&T)
  3. 8. made electric generator, light bulb, motion picture, phonograph and many other inventions (general electric company)
  4. 9. created the theory of social Darwinism; those that could adapt to change would survive while others perished (applied to companies in the Gilded Age)
  5. 10. robber baron in charge of the steel industry; wrote the Gospel of Wealth
  6. 11. Robber baron over banking (Chase bank)
  7. 12. a business strategy in which one company acquires or merges with another that operates at the same level in an industry
Down
  1. 1. a strategy whereby a company owns or controls its suppliers, distributors, or retail locations to control its value or supply chain
  2. 3. founder of the American Federation of Labor
  3. 5. If you are great enough to make it to the top then you have a duty to give back to your community through donations, music halls, and universities
  4. 6. robber baron in charge of the railroad industry
  5. 7. robber baron in charge of the oil industry (Standard oil)