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AH2 Unit 2
Gilded Age and Progressivism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Collective Bargaining | the ongoing process of negotiation between representatives of workers and employers to establish the conditions of employment. |
| Commerce | the exchange or buying and selling of commodities on a large scale involving transportation from place to place |
| Ethnic Neighborhood | culturally distinct minority communities maintain ways of life largely separate from those of the generally larger communities that surround them |
| Industrialization | the process by which an economy is transformed from a primarily agricultural one to one based on the manufacturing of goods |
| Labor Union | group of workers who join together to bargain collectively with their employer |
| Monopoly | exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action |
| Muckraking | crusading journalists, photographers and authors who published their work in order to raise awareness of awareness of social issues and injustices. |
| Naturalization | The process by which a foreign citizen becomes a citizen of a new country |
| Patronage | the power to make appointments to government jobs especially for political advantage |
| Progressive | a way of thinking that focuses on social progress, to make American society a better and safer place in which to live. |
| Strike | A work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work |
| Suffrage | meaning the right or privilege for all adults to vote, regardless of race or gender |
| Tenement | urban dwellings occupied by impoverished families. They are apartment houses that that barely meet or fail to meet the minimum standards of safety, sanitation, and comfort. |
| Trust | the organization of several businesses in the same industry and by joining forces, the trust controls production and distribution of a product or service, thereby limiting competition |
| Urbanization | the process by which rural communities grow to form cities, or urban centers, and, by extension, the growth and expansion of those cities. |
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