Vocab Review: 10/20

A way of organizing an economy where production is privately controlled to accumulate wealth and create a profit.

• abolition

• assimilation

• boycott

• capitalism

A person who buys a product or service.

• Consumer

• Carpetbagger

• Industry

• Tenement

The wealth and industry of a nation.

• Dictator

• Economy

• Monopolies

• Urbanization

A group of businesses that produce goods or services

• Capitalism

• Muckraker

• Robber Baron

• Industry

A system in which government does not interfere with business

• Economy

• Laissez-faire

• Monopolies

• Capitalism

When one person or company completely controls an industry

• Consumer

• Monopoly

• Economy

• Tenement

A writer who exposes corruption in politics and business

• Muckraker

• Tenement

• Urbanization

• Consumer

An American capitalist at the turn of the 19th century who was unethical as they gained wealth, exploited natural resources, or possessed unfair government influence. (Bad)

• Consumer

• Economy

• Robber Baron

• Captain of Industry

A usually overcrowded and run down apartment building that has rooms for rent and often is in a poorer part of the city.

• Laissez-faire

• Muckraker

• Consumer

• Tenement

The growth of cities as the result of more people living and working in them

• Rural

• Urbanization

• Industry

• Tenement