Unit 5 Vocabulary Quiz

1. a combination of firms and corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce competition.

• monopoly

• Trust

• conglomeration

• land grant

1. a grant of land by the federal government, especially for roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges. 

• homestead

• segregation

• laissez fair

• land grant

1. settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider

• political machine

• graft

• arbitration

• laissez fair

1. an organization of common laborers and craft workers in a particular industry. 

• Industrial union

• homestead

• trust

• corporation

1. institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care, libraries, and classes in English.

• homestead

• populism

• settlement house

• social darwinism

1. a policy that the government should interfere as little as possible in the nation’s economy.

• laissez faire

• graft

• closed shop

• tenement

unit of paper currency first issued by the federal government

• injunction

• closed shop

• greenback

• homestead

1. an organization linked to a political party that often controlled local government. 

• sodbuster

• holding company

• trust

• political machine

1. the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group

• arbitration

• annuity

• segregation

• Americanization

a piece of US public land acquired by filing a record and living on and cultivating

• homestead

• bonanza farm

• assimilate

• settlement house