The Gilded Age & Progressive Reform

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Across
  1. 3. a way for people to vote directly on a proposed law
  2. 5. a term for a crusading journalist
  3. 7. known as Battling Bob, introduced various progressive reforms known as the Wisconsin idea
  4. 10. Rewarding political supporters with government jobs
  5. 12. a method of taxation that taxes at different rates depending on income
  6. 13. a process by which people may vote to remove an elected official from office
  7. 15. prohibited businesses from trying to limit or destroy competition
Down
  1. 1. "coated with a thin layer of gold paint"
  2. 2. an election in which voters rather than party leaders, choose their party's candidate
  3. 4. author of The Jungle that told grisly stories of the meatpacking industry
  4. 6. a system that includes most government jobs, except elected positions
  5. 8. ratified in 1913, required the direct election of senators
  6. 9. criminal that cheated NYC out of more than $100 million
  7. 11. Established the Civil service commission
  8. 14. a process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature