Gilded Age Politics

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A change for the better as a result of correcting abuses (6)
  2. 3. Someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884 (plural) (8)
  3. 6. A leader in a ___ party who controls votes and dictates appointments (13)
  4. 7. In a state of progressive putrefaction (10)
  5. 8. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal (6)
  6. 9. A person who operates a farm (plural) (7)
  7. 11. A political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City seeking political control (11)
  8. 12. Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation (plural) (9)
  9. 14. Tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient (5)
  10. 15. United States political cartoonist (10)
  11. 16. A commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter (plural) (9)

Down

  1. 1. A former political ___ in the United States (13)
  2. 4. 18th President of the United States (12)
  3. 5. Someone who advocates the rights of the common people over those of the elite (8)
  4. 10. A person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there (plural) (10)
  5. 13. A person who is loyal to their allegiance (plural) (9)