Ch 10

Question 1

vigilante

Answer 1

a self-appointed enforcer of the law

Question 2

transcontinental railroad

Answer 2

crossing or spanning the Atlantic Ocean

Question 3

subsidy

Answer 3

a land grant or other financial help from the government

Question 4

consilidate

Answer 4

to combine

Question 5

cattle drive

Answer 5

the herding and moving of cattle, usually to railroad lines

Question 6

cow town

Answer 6

a settlement that grew up at the end of a cattle trail

Question 7

morril acts

Answer 7

the acts passed in 1862 and 1890 that provided public land for agricultural colleges

Question 8

sodbuster

Answer 8

a farmer on the Great Plains in the late 1800s

Question 9

whole sale

Answer 9

the buying or selling of something in large quantities at lower prices

Question 10

inflation

Answer 10

a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money

Question 11

tepee

Answer 11

a tent made by stretching buffalo skins on tall poles

Question 12

reservation

Answer 12

a limited area of land set aside for Native Americans

Question 13

allotment

Answer 13

the amount of something such as land distributed to someone

Question 14

stock

Answer 14

a share of ownership in a corporation

Question 15

corperation

Answer 15

business that is owned by investors whose risk of loss is limited

Question 16

dividend

Answer 16

share of a corporation’s profit

Question 17

trust

Answer 17

group of corporations run by a single board of directors

Question 18

monopoly

Answer 18

a company or group having control of all or nearly all of the business of an industry

Question 19

capitalism

Answer 19

an economic system based on private ownership of property, a market economy, and the goal of making a profit, or income, from the use of one’s property

Question 20

sweatshop

Answer 20

workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay

Question 21

strikebreaker

Answer 21

replacement for a striking worker

Question 22

collective bargaining

Answer 22

a process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract

Question 23

patent

Answer 23

license for a new invention

Question 24

trade union

Answer 24

association of workers in a specific trade, or line of work, formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions

Question 25

transatlantic

Answer 25

crossing or spanning the Atlantic Ocean