Unit 5 Vocabulary Quiz

1. a combination of firms and corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce competition.

• monopoly

• Trust

• conglomeration

• land grant

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

1. a grant of land by the federal government, especially for roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges. 

• homestead

• segregation

• laissez fair

• land grant

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

1. settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider

• political machine

• graft

• arbitration

• laissez fair

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

1. an organization of common laborers and craft workers in a particular industry. 

• Industrial union

• homestead

• trust

• corporation

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

1. institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care, libraries, and classes in English.

• homestead

• populism

• settlement house

• social darwinism

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

1. a policy that the government should interfere as little as possible in the nation’s economy.

• laissez faire

• graft

• closed shop

• tenement

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

unit of paper currency first issued by the federal government

• injunction

• closed shop

• greenback

• homestead

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

1. an organization linked to a political party that often controlled local government. 

• sodbuster

• holding company

• trust

• political machine

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

1. the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group

• arbitration

• annuity

• segregation

• Americanization

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

a piece of US public land acquired by filing a record and living on and cultivating

• homestead

• bonanza farm

• assimilate

• settlement house

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D