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Question 1

Relating to a town or city

Answer 1

urban

Question 2

provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land

Answer 2

homestead act

Question 3

a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield. The first major gold rush, to California in 1848–49, was followed by others in the US, Australia (1851–53), South Africa (1884), and Canada (Klondike, 1897–98)

Answer 3

Gold rush

Question 4

A faster way to make steel

Answer 4

bessemer process

Question 5

A faster and more industreal way to travel

Answer 5

Transcontinental railroad

Question 6

Making technology to speed something up

Answer 6

industrialization

Question 7

A place around no other building

Answer 7

Rural

Question 8

a suspension of production while workers and their employer argue about how to divide the surplus from their relationship

Answer 8

Strike

Question 9

an organization of workers in a trade, industry, or company that is created to represent the workers in negotiations with management over issues of pay, benefits, and working conditions.

Answer 9

Labor union

Question 10

negotiating working conditions with your employer

Answer 10

collective bargaining

Question 11

the case of one person holding the title of property, whether land or chattels, for the benefit of another, termed a beneficiary

Answer 11

Trust

Question 12

a market structure that consists of a single seller or producer and no close substitutes

Answer 12

Monopoly

Question 13

an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.

Answer 13

Capitalism