Unit 2 Vocab Practice

Someone who starts up a business or businesses.

• Entrepreneur
• Corporation
• Monopoly
• Cartel

Official rights given by the government to make money off an invention

• Patent
• Corporation
• Monopoly
• Cartel

When one person or company has so much control over a market that they keep competition out.

• Monopoly
• Patent
• Corporation
• Grange

“survival of the fittest”—the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better

• Social Darwinism
• Mass Culture

• Tenement

• Urbanization

Protecting the interest of native-born people over those of immigrants.

• Nativisitm
• Assimilate

• Social Darwinism

• Grandfather Clause

Taking away the culture, language, and heritage of someone and forcefully assimilating them to U.S. values.

• Americanization
• Reservations

• Tenement

• Nativism

Expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them.

• Urbanization
• Consumerism

• Land Grant

• Monopoly

An economic theory and ideology that values the excessive consumption of material goods and services.

• Consumerism
• Suburb

• Corporation
• Monopoly

Similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of transportation, communication, and advertising

• Mass Culture
• Melting Pot

• Social Darwinism

• Reservation

Multi-story building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible.

• Tenement
• Cartel

• Suburb

• Reservation