Across
- 3. places available for people to live in in cities
- 5. a book written about the horrible and unsanitary conditions of meatpacking plants in the late 1800 and early 1900s
- 6. dishonesty and cheating done by people in power
- 7. reformers who improved things by uncovering and exposing wrong things in order to pressure those in charge to make them right
- 9. a book written about the corruption occurring in the Standard Oil Company.
- 10. a law that set cleanliness standards on meat processing
- 11. economic activity that involves creating finished goods from raw materials in factories
- 13. a series of photographs published for the purpose of showing the horrible conditions of U.S. tenement housing
- 16. apartments built specifically for poor people in cities, they are typically small, unsanitary, and not kept up
- 17. a situation in which there is only one company producing a certain product; this causes prices to be very high because there is no competition
- 18. the branch of local government responsible for collecting and disposing of garbage
- 19. a progressive reformer who helped expose and end corruption in huge monopolies by writing about the Standard Oil Company
- 20. a progressive reformer who helped expose horrible conditions in New York City tenements by taking and publishing hundreds of pictures
- 21. people who wanted to improve conditions in society
- 22. a government organization created to protect public health by making sure that food and medicine were handled in a sanitary way
Down
- 1. laws which set standards of sanitation and safety for rental properties
- 2. a Chicago settlement house opened in 1889 by Jane Addams
- 4. an industry that handles the production of meat, beginning with killing the animals and ending with packing and shipping the finished products
- 8. places that provided support to urban poor and immigrants
- 12. an American oil company owned by J.D. Rockefeller
- 14. a progressive reformer who helped change the meatpacking industry by exposing unsanitary conditions in his book, The Jungle.
- 15. an American woman who lived in the late 1800 and early 1900s and was a progressive reformer who opened a settlement house