Mr. Cox Urbanization Quiz

Scabs

Strikebreakers hired by employers as replacement workers when unions went on strike

Trusts

legally formed combinations of corporations or companies

Monopolies

Corporations that gain complete control of the production of a single good or service.

Settlement houses

institutions that provided educational and social services to poor people

literacy test

A requirement that citizens show that they can read before registering to vote

Grandfather Clause

Newly freed slaves could only vote if they could pay a poll tax and pass a literacy test. Individuals could still vote if their grandfather or father legally voted

Samuel Gompers

leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Eugene Debs

leader of the American Socialist Party; tried to form industrial unions-all labors skilled or unskilled in one industry

Tammany Hall

New York's political machine led by William "Boss" Tweed

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890 law banning any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce