Modern America Vocabulary

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

• immigrant

• tenement

• sweatshop

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

• union

• stock

• sweatshop

A company that sells shares of its business to the public

• corporation

• tenement

• philanthropist

describes or relates to the country

• immigrant

• rural

• urban

A share of a business

• trust

• union

• stock

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

• dividend

• immigrant

• philanthropist

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

• monopoly

• sweatshop

• corporation

describes or relates to a city

• rural

• urban

• union

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

• trust

• corporation

• shareholder

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

• monopoly

• tenement

• union