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100
a confederation of workers
What is union
100
shares in a corporation
What is stock
100
a term used to describe a company that controls all or nearly all the businesses of industry.
What is monopoly
100
money given to someone to do something, usually illegal
What is bribe
100
refusing to work in attempt to gain something such as more money
What is strike
200
separating people based on race, or religion
What is segregation
200
a person or people that wants a change for the better
What is reformers
200
a person who puts money in a corporation
What is investors
200
an agreement between nations
What is treaty
200
a test to see if you are qualified to be in a job
What is civil service exam
300
someone who rents land to grow food and gives the land owners a share of the crop growth
What is sharecropper
300
A northerner who moved to the south after the Civil war to work for reconstruction
What is carpetbagger
300
the ability to trade with other countries (in reference to China)
What is open door policy
300
an agreement to stop a war to discuss a peace settlement
What is armistice
300
people who wrote books about the corruption and problems that were going on at this particular time.
What is muckrakers
400
a white southerner who supported reconstruction
What is scalawag
400
a system of hiring government workers based on merit.
What is civil service laws
400
you own all the companies within the same industry
What is horizontal combination
400
the rebuilding of the south post civil war
What is reconstruction
400
you own everything that you need to make that product, think of Mrs. Hoose-Saukas' pencil company
What is vertical combination
500
the system of giving government jobs to friends and supporters
What is spoil system
500
republican reformers during the 1870's and 1880's
What is mugwumps
500
to formally approve and make valid
What is ratify
500
this clause allowed American white males to vote without taking tests because their grandfather's had voted
What is grandfather clause
500
the right of unions to negotiate with management for workers as a group
What is collective bargaining