1. 5 th Grade Social Studies Ch. 8 Vocabulary Mrs. Thornburg’s version

2. Vocabulary Terms in 5 th Grade Social Studies Ch. 8 CorporationCompetitionMonopoly Labor UnionPersecutionStrike Ethnic GroupTenementStockyard ProgressivesSkyscraperSlum Rapid TransitMuckrakerFact Settlement HouseOpinion

3. What do we call unfair treatment or punishment?

4. Persecution

5. What do we call a very tall building?

6. Skyscraper

7. What do we call a poor, crowded part of the city?

8. Slum

9. What do we call a fenced area where large numbers on animals, such as pigs and cattle, are kept until they are used as food for moved someplace else?

10. Stockyard

11. What do we call a company that has no competition?

12. Monopoly

13. What do we call a system of trains used to move people around a city?

14. Rapid transit

15. What do we call a group of people who share a culture or language?

16. Ethnic Group

17. What do we call someone who points out unpleasant truths?

18. Muckraker

19. What do we call a business in which many people own shares, or parts, of the business?

20. Corporation

21. What do we call a poorly built apartment building?

22. Tenement

23. What do we call it when more than one business tries to sell the same goods or services?

24. Competition

25. What do we call a time when workers refuse to work?

26. Strike

27. What do we call a community center for people in cities?

28. Settlement house

29. What do we call an organization of workers that tries to improve pay and working conditions for its members?

30. Labor Union

31. What do we call reformers who wanted to make cities and factories cleaner and safer?

32. Progressives

33. What do we call a piece of information that can be proved?

34. Fact

35. What do we call a personal belief? (it expresses someone’s thoughts or feelings and cannot be proved)

36. Opinion