PRE-AP US History - Unit One Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Process by which an economy is transformed from a primarily agricultural one to one based on the manufacturing of goods.
  2. 4. The idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better. Used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half.
  3. 7. Person or small group who starts a business in the hope of making a profit.
  4. 10. Policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society.
  5. 11. Economic system in which a society's means of production are held by private individuals or organizations, not the government, and where products, prices, and the distribution of goods are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
  6. 12. Large companies that controlled the industry or sector they were in with the ability to control the price of the goods and services they provided.
Down
  1. 1. Mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s.
  2. 3. Law the U.S. Congress passed to prohibit trusts, monopolies, and cartels. Its purpose was to promote economic fairness and competitiveness and to regulate interstate commerce.
  3. 5. Popular engagement of the population in political decision making
  4. 6. Political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures.
  5. 8. In the early 20th century, activities that were designed to prepare foreign-born residents of the United States for full participation in citizenship
  6. 9. Historical site that opened in 1892 as an immigration station, a purpose it served for more than 60 years until it closed in 1954. Located at the mouth of Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, Ellis Island saw millions of newly arrived immigrants pass through its doors.
  7. 13. Factors which initiate and influence the decision to migrate, either by attracting them to another country or by impelling or stimulating emigration