vocab

Question 1

vigilante

Answer 1

a self appointed enforcer of the law

Question 2

transcontinental railroad

Answer 2

a railroad that streches across a contitnent from coast to coast

Question 3

subsidy

Answer 3

a land grant or financil help from the goverment

Question 4

consolidate

Answer 4

a combine

Question 5

cattle drive

Answer 5

the herding and moving of cattle, usally to railroad lines

Question 6

cowtown

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 provivded 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 quantites 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 streching cow on poles

Question 12

reservation

Answer 12

a limited area of land set aside for american indians

Question 13

allotment

Answer 13

an amount of something such as land disturbed to a person

Question 14

stock

Answer 14

a share of ownership in a corporation

Question 15

corporation

Answer 15

a business that is owned by invenstors whose risk of loss is limited

Question 16

dividend

Answer 16

a share of a corporation profit

Question 17

trust

Answer 17

a group of corporation run by a single board of directors

Question 18

monopoly

Answer 18

a company or group having contorl 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 ecomnomy, and the goal of making a profit, or income, from the use of ones 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 reprenting a group of worker negotiates with mangments for a contract