Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
11 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
a process by which a country's population moves from a rural to an urban society. People moving from the county to the city.
|
urbanization
|
|
|
People in public office could appoint friends and supporters to government jobs regardless of their qualifications or honesty
|
spoils system
|
|
|
a government grant where American citizens and immigrants could acquire land
|
Homestead Act
|
|
|
a loose arrangement of similar businesses, usually formed in secret
|
cartel
|
|
|
large corporations that influence social and political politics and are sometimes refereed to as selfish and indifferent to the needs of the general public.
|
big business
|
|
|
an economic system where industries paid their workers by the pieces they finished
|
piecework
|
|
|
the theory that supported minimal interference by government in economic matters
|
laissez faire
|
|
|
a company that has no competition for marketing of its product
|
monopoly
|
|
|
Native American culture began to disappear as a result of this migration
|
westward expansion
|
|
|
the practice or policy of favoring native-born citizens over immigrants
|
nativism
|
|
|
a movement in the rural areas of the United States seeking reforms in transportation (railroad regulation) and monetary policy (silver coinage)
|
populism
|
