Unit 3 Vocabulary VAUS Summer25

the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.

• immigration

• Industrialization

• initiative

• urbanization

Movement of people from rural areas to cities

• immigration

• Industrialization

• urbanization

• Emigration

Movement of individuals into a population

• initiative

• Emigration

• immigration

• imperialism

Complete control of a product or business by one person or group

• strike

• muckraker

• recall

• monopoly

A monopoly that controls goods and services, often in combinations that reduce competition.

• recall

• trust

• strike

• muckraker

Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.

• laissez-faire

• Gilded Age

• initiative

• strike

1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor

• Square Deal

• muckraker

• recall

• Gilded Age

An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

• urbanization

• Emigration

• Labor union

• immigration

Nonviolent refusal to continue to work until a problem is resolved.

• recall

• trust

• muckraker

• strike

Process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract

• League of Nations

• World War I

• Gilded Age

• collective bargaining