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Vocabulary Week 11

Vocabulary Week 11. Campagna. sweatshop. Since there were no other jobs, Peter was forced to work in a sweatshop for long hours and little pay. sweatshop. N. a workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for little money. strikebreaker.

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Vocabulary Week 11

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  1. Vocabulary Week 11 Campagna

  2. sweatshop • Since there were no other jobs, Peter was forced to work in a sweatshop for long hours and little pay.

  3. sweatshop • N. a workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for little money

  4. strikebreaker • Since he needed money to support his family, Danny O’Sullivan became a strikebreaker.

  5. strikebreaker • N. replacement for striking workers

  6. anarchist • After his run-in with the police, John became an anarchist and declared that he would no longer pay taxes to any government.

  7. anarchist • N. people who oppose all forms of organized government

  8. injunction • To end the strike, the courts had to write an injunction to improve labor conditions

  9. injunction • N. a court order to do or not do something

  10. steerage • Many of the poorest immigrants came across the Atlantic in steerage because they could not afford anything more.

  11. steerage • N. airless rooms below the deck of the ship for passengers paying the lowest fares

  12. assimilation • The new immigrants wanted to assimilate to their new country as quickly as possible.

  13. assimilation • Process of being apart of another culture

  14. nativist • When the immigrants started coming over in large numbers, the nativists began to treat them with disrespect and use racial slurs.

  15. nativist • People who wanted to limit immigration and preserve the country for native born white Protestants

  16. urbanization • When more and more immigrants came to the United States, they started the urbanization movement to leave farms and work in cities.

  17. urbanization • Movement of population from farms to cities

  18. tenement • Most of the immigrants were forced to live in tenements because of their low wages.

  19. tenement • A small apartment in a city slum building

  20. socialism • Many of the ideas expressed by immigrants began to sound like socialism. They wanted more control so that they could be equal.

  21. socialism • a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies

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