American Studies
Unit II: The Gilded Age
Gilded Age Crossword Puzzle
Name__________________________
Across
2. tariff which tries to protect American companies from foreign competition
(Protective)
3. conservative candidate in 1896 (McKinley)
4. Carnegie's idea that the rich have a duty to give back to society (Gospel of
Wealth)
6. policy of the US government in which $ was backed by gold only (Tight)
11. poor Scottish immigrant who eventually became one of the wealthiest
industrialists of the 1900s (Carnegie)
12. political view that favors change through the democratic process
(Liberalism)
18. buying unneeded things in order to show status & wealth (Conspicuous
Consumption)
21. Father of the modern Skyscraper (Sullivan)
22. Supreme Court decision that said a state can regulate the rates of grain
elevators (Munn v Illinois)
24. organization of workers who band together to form a collective voice
(Union)
26. when workers refuse to work in order to press the co. for their interests
(Strike)
28. strike in which Eugene V. Debs tried to help Pullman workers get higher
wages (Pullman Strike)
29. political view that favors as little change as possible and a laissez-faire
economic policy (Conservativism)
31. idea that in society the strong people become rich because they're better
while weak get poor (Social Darwinism)
34. liberal candidate in 1896 who was a friend to farmers and laborers (William
Jennings Bryan)
35. led an "army" of people to the White House in 1893 to ask the government to
help unemployed workers affected by the Panic (Coxey)
37. photojournalist who exposed the evils of child labor (Hine)
38. Supreme Court case which said only Congress can regulate business, not
states (Wabash)
41. command economy in which private ownership and profit are allowed (Fascism)
42. "let it (the economy) be" (laissez-faire)
43. leader of the AFL who wanted "a piece of the pie" for his workers (Gompers)
44. political view that seeks to stop change through any means necessary
(Reactionary)
Down
1. when a company acquires other companies in the same market (Horizontal
Integration)
5. laissez faire economic model in which profit, private ownership are allowed
(Capitalism)
7. built the Brooklyn Bridge (Roebling)
8. when a company owns all means of production (Vertical Integration)
9. organized agreement not to buy from a certain company (Boycott)
10. overcrowded and squalid apartment where many poor immigrants lived
(Tenement)
13. "Wizard of Menlo Park" (Edison)
14. party made up of a coalition of farmers, laborers, reformers (Populist)
15. political view that favors drastic change by any means necessary
(Revolutionary)
16. when one company controls the entire market (Monopoly)
17. when an employer closes his business to break a union up (Lockout)
18. Bryan's speech in which he invoked religion in the struggle for bimetallism
(Cross of Gold)
19. tax on imports (Tariff)
20. strike at Carnegie's steel mill in which Emma Goldman (was involved in)
tried to assassinate Frick to better the conditions of the workers (Homestead)
23. to cover in gold (Gild)
25. "New Rich" (Nouveaux Riches)
26. workers hired by employer to break a union (Scab)
27. photojournalist who exposed the conditions of American slums in his book,
How the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis)
29. economic system in which the gov answers all economic questions (Command)
30. most radical labor leader of the IWW (Wobblies)(Big Bill Haywood)
32. America before the Industrial Revolution (Rural)
33. act which prohibited monopolies (Sherman Antitrust)
36. farmer union (Grangers)
39. radical union who was involved in the Haymarket Riot (Knights of Labor)
40. command economy in which no profit is allowed (Communism)