Unit 5: Topic 1 Vocabulary

An apartment building, usually located in a city and meeting only the minimum safety and comfort standards.

• tenement

• loom

• urbanization

• weave

A tool used to weave fabric.

• tenement

• loom

• monopoly

• union

The process of a region changing to have more or larger cities, or urban areas.

• loom

• urbanization

• transcontinental

• monopoly

To create fabric by lacing together threads.

• monopoly

• union

• weave

• loom

An organization formed by workers to win and protect worker' rights.

• union

• monopoly

• investor

• transcontinental

Crossing the entire continent.

• tenement

• monopoly

• loom

• transcontinental

Something that can be used to make or create a product, such as cotton for clothing.

• transcontinental

• raw material

• union

• urbanization

The total control of an industry.

• monopoly

• union

• investor

• capital

A system in which a society's economy is based on machines and factories.

• urbanization

• monopoly

• raw material

• industrialism

A person who puts money into a business with the goal of making more money.

• telegraph

• investor

• loom

• monopoly