Across
- 2. powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office
- 7. allowed voters to choose candidates to run for public office directly
- 9. allowed voters to propose new laws with enough signatures
- 11. with enough signatures, a vote could be called to remove an official from office
- 12. improved transportation by paving streets and building bridges
- 13. pushed for reforms to improve living conditions and society in the late 1800s
Down
- 1. the protection of nature and its resources
- 3. economic system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods
- 4. tried to solve problems concerning pollution, waste disposal, and impure water
- 5. system where government owns and operates a country's means of production
- 6. permitted voters to approve or reject a proposed law
- 8. helped design safer building codes and opened new parks
- 10. journalist nickname because they 'raked up' and exposed the filth of society