Topic 10

Question 1

Vigilante

Answer 1

a self appointed enforcer of the law

Question 2

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 2

a railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast.

Question 3

Subsidy

Answer 3

a land grant or other financial help from the government

Question 4

Consolidate

Answer 4

to combine

Question 5

Cattle Drive

Answer 5

the herding and moving of cattle, usually railroad lines

Question 6

Cowtown

Answer 6

a settlmnt that g at the end of a cattle tal

Question 7

Morrill 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

Wholesale

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

Teppee

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

an amount of something, such as land, distributed to a person

Question 14

Stock

Answer 14

a share of ownership in a corporation

Question 15

Corporation

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

Monoply

Question 19

Capitalism

Question 20

Sweatshop

Question 21

Strikebreaker

Question 22

Collective Bargaining

Question 23

Patent

Question 24

Trade Union

Question 25

Transatlantic