Oil
Employment
Living
Vocabulary
People and Random
100
The process to purify oil
What is refine
100
When people stop work in order to get something, such as more money or better benefits
What is strike
100
A set of rooms within a building that a person or family can rent to live in
What is apartment
100
A resource that is used to make a product
What is raw material
100
An underground railroad
What is subway
200
Oil drilled from the ground that took the place of whale oil
What is petroleum
200
Name one of the three ways businesses improved in their management
What is management of time, supplies, and people
200
A house in a row of houses built without any space between them
What is row house
200
A book of questions and answers about God and the Bible
What is catechsim
200
Treating people unjustly because of the color of their skin
What is racial discrimination
300
When oil is applied to machinery parts to help them move
What is lubricate
300
Group of workers that unite to go on strike
What is labor union
300
Type of community that is outside a city, often has fewer people but has more farms and land, and is characteristic of the countryside
What is rural
300
Area of land outside a city where people will often travel to the city to work.
What is to suburban
300
Most important steel manufacturer in the nation
What is Andrew Carnegie
400
Thin, light-colored oil used to light lamps and lubricate machines
What is kerosene
400
The most important industry after the Civil War
What is railroad industry
400
Housing where the poorest Americans lived
What is tenement
400
Resources used to make a product
What is raw materials
400
Most important man in the oil business
What is John D. Rockefeller
500
Why Americans needed to find a replacement for whale oil
What is whalers had to sail farther from home to hunt for whales and it took longer to get whale oil.
500
Explain how the Civil War improved the way businesses worked
What is Americans learned to think big; business improved in the management of time, supplies, and people
500
Changes in businesses changed schools in this way
What is men were taught to be good businessmen
500
View that is based on Darwin's ideas of survival of the fittest
What is Social Darwinism
500
Name given to a group of people who controlled the way a city ran
What is machine
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