Across
- 1. Important family that improved the Eastern railroads
- 3. First major product of the oil industry
- 5. Tycoon and oil baron
- 6. ___ plus: Economic discrimination against the South in the steel industry
- 10. ____ Day: Holiday created in 1894 "to recognize the many contributions workers have made to America's strength, prosperity, and well-being"
- 11. Organized workers and pushed for better working conditions
- 12. When a government is controlled by the wealthy
- 13. ____ watering: selling ___s and bonds in excess of the railroad's actual value
- 14. Part of the population highly affected by the new industrial age
Down
- 2. ____ process: reduced price of steel and removed impurities
- 4. ____ Contracts: workers would not join a labor union
- 6. Agreements to divide the business in a given area and share the pro
- 7. Created in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell
- 8. ____ Square: Place where a protest against police brutality took place, bomb killed several people
- 9. Big ___: chief financial backers of the Central Pacific Railroad