Unit 1 Vocabulary Industrial Revolution and the Progressive Era

Question 1

Population growth as a result of people moving from rural areas to cities

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urbanization

Question 2

A person who leaves their home country to settle in a new area

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immigrant

Question 3

A Scottish-American businessman who built a huge steel empire in the late 1800's

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Andrew Carnegie

Question 4

The process immigrants may experience to understand and accept the new area where they live

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assimilation

Question 5

The study of history in terms of wages, labor, business, and money

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economic

Question 6

A combination of businesses for the purpose of controlling prices and reducing competition

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trust

Question 7

total control of a supply or trade which may cause prices to go up and quality to go down

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monopoly

Question 8

Organization of workers who put pressure on employers to improve wages and work environments

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labor unions

Question 9

A way of studying history that involves how they live and what is important to them

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social

Question 10

they physical characteristics of an area that affect the way people live and work

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geographic

Question 11

A business owned by investors who buy part of it through shares of stock

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corporation

Question 12

Having to do with laws and government

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political

Question 13

A person who organizes and runs a business

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entrepreneur

Question 14

A technique used in business to speed up production of goods

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assembly lines

Question 15

Young workers who were paid less money but were needed by families to help earn money

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child labor

Question 16

The founder of the Standard Oil Trust

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John D. Rockefeller

Question 17

A person who searches for possible corruption or scandal

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muckraker

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