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Down: 1) in French, meaning “to let do”; a form of capitalism that allows companies to conduct business without intervention by the government. 3) education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture. 4) negotiation between employers and an organized group of employees on conditions of employment, such as wages or hours. 6) having complete control in the marketplace, without any outside competition. 8) the growth of cities. 11) a U.S. law enacted in 1862 that provided 160 acres in the West to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for five years; a law whose passage led to record numbers of U.S. settlers claiming private property which previously had been reserved by treaty and by tradition for Native American nomadic dwelling and use; the same law strengthened in 1889 to encourage individuals to exercise their private property rights and develop homesteads out of the vast government lands. 12) an economic and social philosophy—supposedly based on the biologist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection—holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest. 14) a business organization in which competing companies are under the control of a single group of trustees. 16) the ability of families or individuals to move into a higher social class. 21) an island in the San Francisco Bay that was an entry point for many Asian immigrants to the United States beginning in 1910. Across: 2) a railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869. 5) an opponent of a strong central government. 7) a law, enacted in 1890, that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade. 9) a law, enacted in 1887, that reestablished the federal government’s right to supervise railroad activities and created a five-member Interstate Commerce Commission to do so. 10) supporters of the Constitution and of a strong national government. 13) a multifamily urban dwelling, usually overcrowded and unsanitary. 15) a law, enacted in 1882, that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials from entering the United States. 17) the organization of people into social classes by wealth. 18) the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791 and consisting of a formal list of citizens’ rights and freedoms. 19) a minority group’s adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture. 20) the treaty requiring the Sioux to live on a reservation along the Missouri River. 22) a mixture of people from different cultures and races who blend together by abandoning their native languages and cultures. 23) favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people. 24) an island in New York Harbor that was the chief immigration station in the United States from 1892 to 1924. 25) the vast grassland that extends through the central portion of North America, from Texas northward to Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains.
 

 

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