USH.10.5.Vocab

Match the following

• A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country 

• Immigrant

• Make changes in something to improve it 

• Labor Union 

• An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests

• Reform

• Work at an unskilled manual occupation

• Labor  

• The right to vote in political elections 

• Suffrage

Match the following

• Favoring or promoting change, modernization, and transformation 

• Conservative

• Make changes in something to improve it 

• Reform

• Process of making an area more city-like; the growth of cities and towns from villages 

• Industrialization

• Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautions about change or advancement 

• Urbanization

• Development of industry, business, and the economy 

• Progressive

Match the following

• Economic/political system where a country’s industry is controlled by private owners for profit

• Monopoly

• Development of industry, business, and the economy

• Economy

• Wealth /resources of a country/region in terms of production and consumption of goods /services

• Capitalism

• An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests

• Industrialization 

• The exclusive possession or control of supply or trade in a service or good 

• Labor Union 

Steven has a job - manual labor at the railways - in which he lays down railway track

• True
• False

Linda is progressive - she believes that a woman should hope to be no more than a housewife

• True
• False

Microsoft was once accused of being a monopoly - they were one of many computer companies who sold internet browsers

• True
• False

  The US economy is made up of all the goods and services the US produces and consumes

• True
• False

  France is an industrialized nation - they manufacture and produce many different goods in French owned factories

• True
• False

Urbanization has taken hold in Illinois - there are fewer people living in cities, and more people living on rural farms

• True
• False

Tony belongs to a labor union - the coal workers union represents him when they negotiate contracts and benefits for all coal workers

• True
• False