All terms in this list:

industrialization: When workers and immigrants from other countries moved into urban areas (cities) and began to work in the factories. This began in the US in the 1870's.

rural: farm area

urban: city area

suburban: area located on the outskirts of the cities

tenement house: crowded apartment buildings where many people lived during the Industrial Revolution

entrepreneur: A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk.

corporation: A group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.

monopoly: A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.

laissez faire: A policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs.

labor union: A continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment; a trade union.

strike: a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught

strikebreaker: A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.

Jim Crow law: Nickname for any law which racially segregated public facilities and which was enacted in Southern and border states in the United States between 1876 and 1965.

poll tax: A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual.

grandfather clause: A clause or section, especially in a law, granting exceptions for people or organisations who were affected by previous conditions.

Ku Klux Klan: A secret society that uses terrorism to promote white supremacy. It primarily operated in the southern United States of America during the mid-1900s.

Ford Model T: The first car made by Ford Motor Company on an assembly line. Before the Model T, cars were made painstakingly by hand.

Transcontinental railroad: A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah.