Lesson 16 Key Terms (Word Bank)

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Across
  1. 3. a political machine in New York City
  2. 5. an 1883 federal law that limited patronage by creating a civil service commission to administer exams for certain nonmilitary government jobs
  3. 6. businesses that take mineral resources from the earth
  4. 8. an organization consisting of full-time politicians whose main goal was to retain political power and the money and influence that went with it
  5. 9. the practice of politicians giving jobs to friends and supporters
  6. 10. nonmilitary government employees
Down
  1. 1. a reform movement calling for moderation in drinking alcohol
  2. 2. the growth of cities
  3. 4. a journalist who wrote about social, environmental, and political problems Americans faced in the early 1900s
  4. 7. Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel about unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants
  5. 11. the facilities or equipment required for an organization or community to function, including roads, sewage and power systems, and transportation