In The Beginning
A geographical area controlled by a distant country.
Colony
A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
Tenement
An organization of employees that bargains with the employer
union
Capital raised by a corporation through the issues of shares
stock
The overthrow Of a government by those who are governed
revolution
Where people and merchandise can enter or leave the country
port
incorporating a racial or religious group into a community
Integration
A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller
monopoly
Proceedings initiated to repossess the collateral for a loan
foreclosure
Maintaining a strong force of Armed Services
militarism
an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale
plantation
A social system with separate facilities for minority groups
Segregation
The state of having a job
employment
A legal right to vote
suffrage
Freeing someone from the control of another
emancipation
Binded by a contract for work, as an apprentice or servant
indenture
The social process whereby cities grow
urbanization
Refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad conditions
Strike
The action of forbidding
prohibition
A friendly nation
ally
A person who owes allegiance to a nation
Subject
The development of commercial enterprise
industrialization
A long term economic state with unemployment and low prices
depression
A tenant farmer who owes a portion of their harvest for rent
sharecropper
Murder of a public figure by surprise attack
assassination