Unit 2 Key Terms

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Across
  1. 2. The idea that one's inherent value and worth is based on their wealth. It was often used to fuel discrimination.
  2. 4. The company and namesake of the strike against it that saw over 300,000 railroad workers go on strike. It was put down by Federal troops.
  3. 5. A labor union that included workers of any trade, skilled or unskilled, and that recruited women and African Americans.
  4. 9. A type of business where ownership is shared between investors and stockholders.
  5. 11. Last name of a steel tycoon whose steel empire helped build the infrastructure of American and is one of the wealthiest men in US history.
  6. 12. Last name of the Ohio oil tycoon who dominated his industries. He became one of the wealthiest men in American with his oil monopoly.
  7. 14. The idea of something looking gold and shiny on the outside, but being rotten in the core.
  8. 15. A movement of approximately six million African Americans out of the Southern United States and into urban centers of the North from 1910 to 1970.
  9. 17. Last name of the man who founded the American Railway Union (ARU) and who organized one of the largest railroad strikes in US history.
  10. 19. A preference of accepting native-born white Americans of white European immigrants. It fueled discrimination against immigrants.
  11. 21. Crops grown to be sold for cash. Cotton, tobacco, etc.
  12. 22. An arrangement of businesses that agree to make the same product at a small scale to keep prices high.
  13. 23. A system which allows businesses to operate under minimal gov't regulation.
Down
  1. 1. An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
  2. 3. The complete control of a product or service.
  3. 6. Low-cost multifamily housing that had some of the worst living conditions in cities.
  4. 7. Running a business for profit with minimal regulations beyond what is necessary to protect public interest.
  5. 8. Famous American author who coins the term "Gilded Age" for America at the time.
  6. 10. Programs and the wider process of turning immigrants into Americans, through teaching dress, diet, language, and social norms.
  7. 13. An economic and political philosophy that favors public, not private, ownership of property and income.
  8. 16. A organized group of workers who use collective bargaining to gain rights, wages, and better working conditions.
  9. 18. A type of business organization where companies assign their stock to a board of trustees.
  10. 20. Middle and upper-class neighborhoods that formed as a response to growing industrialized cities and the changing demographics of urban centers.