Topic 10 Vocab

Question 1

a self-appointed enforcer of the law

Answer 1

Vigilante

Question 2

a railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast

Answer 2

Transcontinental railroad

Question 3

a land grant or other financial help from the government

Answer 3

Subsidy

Question 4

to combine

Answer 4

Consolidate

Question 5

the herding and moving of cattle, usually to railroad lines

Answer 5

Cattle Drive

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Cowtown

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Morrill Acts

Question 8

a farmer on the Great Plains in the late 1800s

Answer 8

Sodbuster

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Wholesale

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Inflation

Question 11

a tent made by stretching buffalo skins on tall poles

Answer 11

Tepee

Question 12

a limited area of land set aside for Native Americans

Answer 12

Reservation

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Allotment

Question 14

a share of ownership in a corporation

Answer 14

Stock

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Corporation

Question 16

share of a corporation’s profit

Answer 16

Dividend

Question 17

group of corporations run by a single board of directors

Answer 17

Trust

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Monopoly

Question 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

Answer 19

Capitalism

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Sweatshop

Question 21

replacement for a striking worker

Answer 21

Strikebreaker

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Collective Bargaining

Question 23

license for a new invention

Answer 23

Patent

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Trade Union

Question 25

crossing or spanning the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 25

Transatlantic