carolb4993 Vocab Chap 11

3. journalist who wrote about dangerous working conditions or dishonest businesses and politicians
8. group of workers who united to improve working conditions
9. person believed in using new and creative ideas for social progress or change
12. travel back and forth regularly
14. territories set aside for Native Americans
15. person who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act
17. railroad that crosses a continent
20. African Americans from the South who went to Kansas in the 1870's
21. rundown building
22. rundown neighborhood

1. total control of a type of industry by one person or company
2. a direct vote on a proposed law
4. special election during which voters decide whether or not to remove an elected official
5. laws that banned the production and sale of alcohol
6. the rights to own or use something
7. to take in and make part of something else
10. the right of citizens to place an issue on a ballot for a direct vote
11. law that divided up Native American reservations into small plots of land for individuals
12. the movement of large herds of cattle by cowboys from ranches to railroad stations
13. large business in which people invest their money and share ownership
16. system in which people get political jobs because they donated money to or were friends with politicians
18. protest working conditions by refusing to work
19. the right to vote
21. way of organizing a number of businesses to that a few people, called trustees, control them