| A | B |
|---|
| urban | city area |
| rural | area in the country |
| landlord | owner of apartment building |
| slum | crowded, poor neighborhood |
| alcoholism | disease that became a problem with the difficulties of the Industrial Revolution |
| labor union | demanded higher wages, better conditions, and better benefits for workers |
| strike | refusal to work until demands are met |
| journalist | person who writes newspapers |
| capitalists | could run their own businesses, invest in them, and make their own profit |
| socialists | thought that all people should own a nation's property and businesses |
| Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels | German socialists who wrote the Communist Manifesto |
| Communist Manifesto | pamphlet that told workers to rise up and revolt against capitalism in order to make society better |
| communism | a form opf socialism in which all people receive and equal amount of a nation's wealth |
| standard of living | increased because of higher wages and lower prices for goods |
| land | important source of wealth and power BEFORE 1800 |
| mines, factories, railroads | important source of wealth and power AFTER 1800 |
