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What is Suffrage?
the right to vote
What is an unfair treatment of a person or group because of beliefs about that group of people?
Discrimination
What does naturalize mean?
to allow someone from another country to become a citizen
What is a type of company, usually made up of many people, with certain legal rights and protections to conduct business, sell stocks, shares in a business, and gain capital?
Corporation
What do you call the killing of a person by a mob, often by hanging?
Lynching
What is an extended period of reduced economic activity, when large numbers of people cannot find jobs, and most people have less money to spend?
Depression
What is a place where resources are processed, usually for industrial use?
refinery
What is an organized activity meant to make a profit for a company?
Enterprise
What is the act of keeping people separate, usually on the basis of race?
Segregation
What is a telegraph?
a machine that communicates messages over long distances by sending signals through wires
What is the name for a Jewish house of worship?
Synagogue
What is an economic system in which prices are determined by competition among businesses and not by the government?
Market Economy
What is an ore?
rock from which metal can be obtained
What is the act of leaving one country to settle permanently in another?
Emigration
What is a combustion engine?
an engine that converts fuel, such as gasoline, to energy
What is a sweatshop?
a factory in which employees work for long hours in unsafe conditions for a low wage
What is the act of coming to live permanently in a new country?
Immigration
What is a policy of giving preference to people who are from a specific country, or who already live in a country, rather than to immigrants?
Nativism
What does transcontinental mean?
across a continent; Railroad ties had to have a standard gauge
What is Oil-refining
related to purifying petroleum (oil) to produce a product for sale
What is a license from the government that gives the person requesting the patent the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention?
Patent
What is a system in which businesses operate with minimal government involvement?
Free enterprise
What is a person who rebels against or works to disrupt an established authority, usually a government or an economic system?
Anarchist
What is a combination of corporations created to reduce competition and control prices?
Trust
What is an apartment building, often overcrowded and in need of repairs, usually in a city slum?
Tenement