Unit EIGHT - Industrialization and Urbanization of America

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

• political machine
• sweatshop
• tax
• trust
• urban

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

• political machine
• sweatshop
• tax
• trust
• urban

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

• political machine
• sweatshop
• tax
• trust
• urban

a combination of corporations created to reduce competition and control prices

• political machine
• sweatshop
• tax
• trust
• urban

relating to a city

• political machine
• sweatshop
• tax
• trust
• urban

to control or place limits on

• union
• regulate
• investor
• market economy
• industrialism

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

• union
• regulate
• investor
• market economy
• industrialism

an organization formed by workers to win and protect workers’ rights

• union
• regulate
• investor
• market economy
• industrialism

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

• union
• regulate
• investor
• market economy
• industrialism

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

• union
• regulate
• investor
• market economy
• industrialism