Vocabulary

2. Populism is a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group with "the elite".
3. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
7. an abundance of valuable possessions or money.
8. A gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold.
10. the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
12. a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
15. the home and adjoining land with any buildings that is occupied usually by a family as its principal residence.
16. the action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender.
17. the right to vote in electing public officials and adopting or rejecting proposed legislation.
18. bring farmers together to discuss agricultural styles, in an attempt to correct widespread costly and inefficient methods.
19. any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing.
20. a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

1. the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
4. take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully.
5. a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
6. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
9. A labor union or trade union is an organized group of workers who unite to make decisions about conditions affecting their work.
11. the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
13. a department or branch of a craft, art, business, or manufacture.
14. the process of making an area more urban.