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vocab for history

QuestionAnswer
markets places where buyers and sellers come together
industry name given to all businesses involved in the same productive activity
product a manufactured or agricultural good ready for sale
mechanization the process of using machines to make products for efficiently
labor strike a refusal to work by a group of laborers trying to force business owners to make their work conditions more acceptable
monopoly control of the majority of the business transactions in an industry by one large company
patent legal recognition of an inventor's right to profit from selling his invention to a production company
urbanization The movement of large numbers of citizens from rural areas to cities
ghetto a neighborhood where poor city dwellers live in crowded, dirty, and dangerous conditions
tenement a poorly constructed and maintained apartment building located in a ghetto
political machine A group of city leaders who take advantage of poor, uneducated city residents by doing favors for individuals while stealing tax dollars and failing to provide city services required of them
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