US History Ch 5-Gilded Age-Vocabulary

Labor

• Favoring or promoting change
• Wealth and resources of a country or region
• The people in the workforce
• Work at an unskilled manual occupation

Reform

• Making changes for improvment
• Being cautious about change
• Development of industry and economy
• An organized group of people protecting their rights

Suffrage

• Coming to a foreign country to live
• The right to vote in political elections
• When a country's trade is controlled by private owners
• Development of rights and unions

Economy

• Possession or control of goods and services
• Wealth and resources of a country in terms of production
• Promoting change, modernization, and transformation
• Money and Trade alliances with foreign countries

Conservative

• Traditional values and attitudes, cautious about change
• Willing and eager to change
• Organized group of workers
• Process of making an area more city-like

Progressive

• Skilled laborers
• Unskilled laborers
• Being resistant to change
• Favoring and promoting change

Industrialization

• Making a shift from agricultural practices
• Process of making an area more city like
• Development of industry, business, and the economy
• Development of new, improved business practices

Which of the following groups has a labor union

• Electricians
• Wegmans employees
• Fast Food Employees
• Veterinarians

Immigrant

• A group that advocates for the rights and freedoms of others
• A person who comes to live in a country permanently
• The right to vote
• An organized group of skilled and unskilled laborers

Capitalism

• political system that is anti-change and pro the rights of the individual
• A groupv of skilled laborers who fight for rights and priveleges on the job
• Process of a making a city more profitable due to incerasing business
• political system in which a country's trade is controlled by private owbers