1. US History A Unit 2 Academic Vocabulary
Read the definition for each term.
Write a sentence correctly using each term.
You may handwrite on notebook paper, or type your sentence onto the slide and it to me.

2. Unions
an organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests; a labor union.
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3. Collective Bargaining
negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
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4. Strike
a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.
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5. Immigration
the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country
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6. Urbanization
the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas
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7. Race
race refers to groups of people who have differences and similarities in biological traits deemed by society to be socially significant, meaning that people treat other people differently because of them. ... Racism, then, is prejudice based on socially significant physical features.
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8. Americanization
Instruction of foreigners (as immigrants) in English and in United States history, government, and culture.
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9. Corporation
a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
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10. Merger a combination of two things, especially companies, into one.
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11. Trust
an illegal combination of industrial or commercial companies in which the stock of the constituent companies is controlled by a central board of trustees, a group of people who have assumed the authority to supervise the affairs of the constituent companies, thus making it possible to manage the companies so as to minimize production costs, control prices, eliminate competition, etc.
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12. Cartel
an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.
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13. Monopoly
A monopoly is a market containing a single firm that has or is close to total control of the sector. 
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14. Social Darwinism Use in a sentence
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
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15. Progressives
A movement for reform that occurred roughly between 1900 and 1920. Progressives typically held that irresponsible actions by the rich were corrupting both public and private life.
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16. Nationalism
Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts; an extreme form of this is especially marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries.
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17. Civil
Of or relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns, as distinct from military or ecclesiastical (religious) matters.
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18. Work Ethic
the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward.
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19. Tolerant
showing willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.
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20. Fundamentalism
a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
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21. Temperance
abstinence from alcoholic drink.
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