Across
- 5. Leader of the Democratic Tammany Hall, New York political machine
- 7. 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots
- 9. tariff that raised protective tariff levels by nearly 50%, making them the highest tariffs on imports in the United States history.
- 12. famous railroad tycoon
- 14. founded the NAACP
- 15. wrote the muckraking piece "How the other half lives"
- 17. rich people should share their money among those who are more in need
- 18. Governmental policy of staying out of economic decisions
- 19. provided that Federal Government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that Government employees be selected through competitive exams
- 20. Refers to the industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages.
Down
- 1. founded Standard Oil Company
- 2. Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.
- 3. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
- 4. Group that called for nationalizing the railroads, telephones, and telegraph; income tax, loans for farmers, and free and unlimited coinage of silver.
- 6. State laws in the South that legalized segregation.
- 8. robber baron known for his steel company
- 10. a system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops
- 11. period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s
- 13. 22nd and 24th US President
- 16. wrote the muckraking piece "The Jungle"