WorksheetsModern America Vocabulary
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 4mins
A building in which many families rent rooms or apartments, these are usually dirty and lack safety.
immigrant
tenement
sweatshop
a shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions
union
stock
sweatshop
A company that sells shares of its business to the public
corporation
tenement
philanthropist
describes or relates to the country
immigrant
rural
urban
A share of a business
trust
union
stock
a person who left his or her country to live somewhere else
dividend
immigrant
philanthropist
total control of a type of industry by ONE person or company
monopoly
sweatshop
corporation
describes or relates to a city
rural
urban
union
a combination of businesses formed by a legal agreement, usually to reduce competition
trust
corporation
shareholder
organization of workers formed to demand better working conditions or a higher salary from their employer
monopoly
tenement
union
people who invest their money in a corporation by buying shares of stock (partial owners)
shareholder
immigrant
philanthropist
cash payments to shareholders from the corporation's profits
dividend
stock
shareholder
a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others by using their money to benefit the community
immigrant
corporation
philanthropist
