Industry and Urban Growth Vocabulary Quiz

Department Store: neighborhood centers in poor areas that offer education, recreation, and social activities.

• True

• False

Entrepreneur: A business owned by stockholders or investors.

• True

• False

Assembly Line: In a factory, an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product.

• True

• False

Realist: Writers who try to show life as it is.

• True

• False

Settlement House: Sensational style of writing, which exaggerates the news to lure and enrage readers.

• True

• False

Urbanization: The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another.

• True

• False

Laws that require children to attend school.

• Collective Bargaining

• Compulsory Education

• High Tariffs

• Economic Inequality

A group of corporations run by a single board of directors.

• Monopoly

• Corporation

• Collective Bargaining

• Trust

The system in which privately owned businesses compete freely.

• Monopoly

• Corporation

• Capitalism

• Free Enterprise

Movement of people from rural areas to cities.

• Assimilation

• Entrepreneur

• Corporation

• Urbanization