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The United States Grows pages 198-223
| Questions |
Answers |
| a piece of information that can be proved |
fact |
| a personal belief |
opinion |
| someone who "rakes up" or points out, unpleasant truths |
muckraker |
| growth of industry |
industrialization |
| reformers |
progressives |
| laws that protect workers |
laborlaws |
| first settlement house in the United States |
hullhouse |
| a community center for people in cities |
settlementhouse |
| poor, crowded part of the city |
slum |
| a system of trains used to move people around in the cities |
rapidtransit |
| growth of cities |
urbanization |
| poorly built apartment |
tenement |
| a group of people who share a culture or language |
ethnicgroup |
| unfair treatment or punishment |
persecution |
| elected Samuel Gompers as their president |
americanfederationoflabor |
| workers refuse to work |
strike |
| more than one business tries to sell the same good or service |
competition |
| company that has no competition |
monopoly |
| business in which many people own shares or parts of the business |
corporation |
