Across
- 4. OF WEALTH Andrew Carnegie’s famous essay on giving away wealth (three words)
- 8. TO RICHES Horatio Alger wrote about this kind of success story (three words)
- 10. Inventor of the electric light bulb
- 13. Alexander Graham Bell’s famous invention
- 14. Oil tycoon who created Standard Oil
- 17. Process of turning raw materials into finished goods on a large scale
- 18. Site of a major 1886 labor bombing in Chicago
- 20. Type of business combination that eliminated competition
- 21. ANTITRUST 1890 act intended to curb trusts (two words)
- 23. DARWINISM Belief that the wealthy were naturally superior (two words)
Down
- 1. Large business combinations that dominated industries
- 2. TWEED Corrupt New York political boss (two words)
- 3. Urban apartment buildings often overcrowded and unsanitary
- 5. Steel magnate and philanthropist who built libraries
- 6. Cornelius shipping and railroad tycoon
- 7. FEDERATION Labor organization led by Samuel Gompers (three words)
- 8. BARONS Term for the wealthy industrialists accused of exploitation (two words)
- 9. AGE Rapid economic growth period marked by inequality (two words)
- 11. Major 1894 railroad workers strike
- 12. TWAIN Author who coined “Gilded Age” with Charles Dudley Warner
- 15. JP Morgan specialized in this financial sector
- 16. Political machines often run by bosses like Tweed
- 19. Many new arrivals came through this New York island
- 22. Chinese and Irish workers helped build the first transcontinental one