Early 20th Century in the US Vocabulary HMH

The process of selecting people for legally required service in the armed forces

• military draft

• suffrage

• neutral

• progressive

A ___________ is when a company or an individual has undivided and complete control over a commercial activity.

• tenement

• merit system

• monopoly

• capitalism

The operation of aircraft

• isolation

• share cropping

• commision

• aviation

The system of hiring and promoting civil service worker on their ability instead of political ability

• merit system

• commission

• conservation

• monopoly

A rundown, poorly maintained apartment building

• strike

• isthmus

• tenement

• neutral

The refusal to work until employee have their demands met for higher pay and/or improved work conditions is called a _______________.

• monopoly

• strike

• reform

• suffrage

A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land masses is known as an _______________.

• isthmus

• commission

• isolation

• share cropping

To protect and preserve wildlife and natural resources is done through ____________ efforts such as state and national parks.

• commission

• suffrage

• conservation

• neutral

Dishonesty

• isolation

• capitalism

• monopoly

• corruption

The right to vote

• suffrage

• neutral

• progressive

• conservation