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Modern America Vocabulary

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A building in which many families rent rooms or apartments, these are usually dirty and lack safety.

a)

immigrant

b)

tenement

c)

sweatshop

2.

a shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions

a)

union

b)

stock

c)

sweatshop

3.

A company that sells shares of its business to the public

a)

corporation

b)

tenement

c)

philanthropist

4.

describes or relates to the country

a)

immigrant

b)

rural

c)

urban

5.

A share of a business

a)

trust

b)

union

c)

stock

6.

a person who left his or her country to live somewhere else

a)

dividend

b)

immigrant

c)

philanthropist

7.

total control of a type of industry by ONE person or company

a)

monopoly

b)

sweatshop

c)

corporation

8.

describes or relates to a city

a)

rural

b)

urban

c)

union

9.

a combination of businesses formed by a legal agreement, usually to reduce competition

a)

trust

b)

corporation

c)

shareholder

10.

organization of workers formed to demand better working conditions or a higher salary from their employer

a)

monopoly

b)

tenement

c)

union

11.

people who invest their money in a corporation by buying shares of stock (partial owners)

a)

shareholder

b)

immigrant

c)

philanthropist

12.

cash payments to shareholders from the corporation's profits

a)

dividend

b)

stock

c)

shareholder

13.

a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others by using their money to benefit the community

a)

immigrant

b)

corporation

c)

philanthropist