UNIT 2 – Progressive Era (1890–1920)

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Across
  1. 2. Photographer who exposed tenement conditions in How The Other Half Lives
  2. 3. Christian reform movement urging believers to help the poor and improve society
  3. 5. Constitutional amendment establishing federal income tax
  4. 11. Author of The Jungle exposing horrors of the meatpacking industry
  5. 13. Amendment granting women the right to vote
  6. 16. Theodore Roosevelt’s program for fairness to consumers workers and businesses
  7. 19. Reform allowing citizens to propose laws directly
  8. 20. Early law attempting to limit monopolies
  9. 21. Constitutional amendment allowing direct election of senators
  10. 22. Woodrow Wilson’s plan to support small businesses and limit big business power
  11. 23. Created the central banking system of the United States
  12. 24. Writer who revealed corruption in city governments
  13. 25. Investigative journalist who exposed corruption and social problems
Down
  1. 1. Law requiring accurate labels on food and medicine
  2. 4. Reform allowing voters to remove elected officials before their term ends
  3. 6. Amendment that began Prohibition
  4. 7. Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
  5. 8. Strengthened antitrust laws and banned unfair business practices
  6. 9. Journalist who exposed Standard Oil’s unfair business practices
  7. 10. Community center providing services to immigrants in poor neighborhoods
  8. 12. Founder of Hull House settlement home in Chicago
  9. 14. Agency created to manage and protect national parks
  10. 15. Idea that the fittest individuals and businesses naturally rise to the top
  11. 17. Law requiring sanitary conditions in meatpacking plants
  12. 18. Reform allowing voters to approve or reject laws passed by the legislature