Core Knowledge 6 - Industrialization of America - Vocab

the organization of society around an economy based on the use of machines and factories.

• investor

• market economy

• industrialization

• sweatshop

• regulate

relating to cities.

• political machine

• tax

• trust

• urban

• union

money that people must pay to the government so that it can fund such things as schools and roads.

• political machine

• tax

• trust

• urban

• union

a factory in which employees work for long hours in unsafe conditions for a low wage.

• investor

• market economy

• industrialization

• sweatshop

• regulate

a group that maintains political control, usually of a city, through bribery and intimidation.

• political machine

• tax

• trust

• urban

• union

an economic system in which prices are determined by competition among businesses and not by the government.

• investor

• market economy

• industrialization

• sweatshop

• regulate

an organization formed by workers to win and protect workers' rights.

• political machine

• tax

• trust

• urban

• union

a person who puts money into a business with the goal of later making a profit.

• investor

• market economy

• industrialization

• sweatshop

• regulate

to control or put limits on,

• investor

• market economy

• industrialization

• sweatshop

• regulate

a combination of corporations created to reduce competition and control prices

• political machine

• tax

• trust

• urban

• union