Topic 10

Question 1

Lode

Answer 1

A lode is a rich vein of gold or silver.

Question 2

Vigilante

Answer 2

A self appointed law enforcer.

Question 3

Gauge

Answer 3

The width of a train track.

Question 4

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Network

Answer 5

A system of connected line.

Question 6

Subsidy

Answer 6

Financial aid or a land grant from the government.

Question 7

Gauge

Answer 7

Width of a train track

Question 8

Consolidate

Answer 8

To combine

Question 9

Pool

Answer 9

Railroad companies divided up the business in the area.

Question 10

Rebate

Answer 10

Discounts.

Question 11

Cattle drive

Answer 11

The herding and moving of cattle usually to railroad lines.

Question 12

Vaquero

Answer 12

Skilled riders who herded cattle.

Question 13

Cow Town

Answer 13

Where cattle drivers ended that sprung up around railroad lines.

Question 14

Morrill Acts

Answer 14

The Acts passed in 1862 & 1890 that provided public land for agricultural colleges.

Question 15

Sodbuster

Answer 15

A farmer in the Great plains in the late 1800’ s :-)

Question 16

Cooperative

Answer 16

A group of people who pool their money to buy pf sell goods whole-sale.

Question 17

Inflation

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Wholesale

Answer 18

The buying of selling of something at large quantities for low prices.

Question 19

Tepee

Answer 19

A tent made by stretching buffalo skins on tall poles

Question 20

Reservation

Answer 20

A limited area of land set aside for American Indians

Question 21

Allotment

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Stock

Answer 22

A share of ownership in a corporation

Question 23

Corporation

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Dividend

Answer 24

Share of a corporation’s profit

Question 25

Trust

Answer 25

Group of corporations run by a single board of directors

Question 26

Monopoly

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Capitalism

Answer 27

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 28

Sweatshop

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Strikebreaker

Answer 29

replacement for a striking worker

Question 30

Collective Bargaining

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Patent

Answer 31

Licence for a new invention

Question 32

Trade Union

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Transatlantic

Answer 33

Crossing or spanning the Atlantic Ocean

Question 34

Inflation

Answer 34

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