Urbanization: Industry and Immigrants Vocabulary Quiz

Provided housing, food, clothing and assistance for the poor

• trade unions

• ethnic groups

• settlement houses

• collective bargaining

Building in cities where families rented rooms and often entire families to a room

• suburbs

• slums

• tenements

• trade union

Cash payments from a corporation's profits

• stock

• injunction

• trust

• dividends

Owner of steel company who used vertical integration

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• J.P. Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Negative conditions that make people want to leave their home

• old immigrants

• push factors

• new immigrants

• pull factors

Minorities that speak different languages or follow different customs than most people

• old immigrants

• philanthropists

• sweatshops

• ethnic groups

Residential neighborhoods that developed outside city limits, but are not quite city or country

• suburbs

• tenements

• slums

• steerage

Someone who uses their wealth to benefit the community

• shareholder

• trade union

• trust

• philanthropist

To become part of American culture and give up old customs

• emigrate

• merger

• injunction

• assimilate

Company that sells shares of its business to the public.

• corporation

• sweatshop

• trade union

• trust