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Vocabulary Terms in 5 th Grade
Social Studies Ch. 8
Corporation Competition Monopoly
Labor Union Persecution Strike
Ethnic Group Tenement Stockyard
Progressives Skyscraper Slum
Rapid Transit Muckraker
Settlement House
Fact
Opinion

What do we call unfair treatment or punishment?

Persecution

What do we call a very tall building?

Skyscraper

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

Slum

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?

Stockyard

What do we call a company that has no competition?

Monopoly

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

Rapid transit

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

Ethnic Group

What do we call someone who points out unpleasant truths?

Muckraker

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

Corporation

What do we call a poorly built apartment building?

Tenement

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

Competition

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

Strike

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

Settlement house

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

Labor Union

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

Progressives

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

Fact

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

Opinion