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| A building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety |
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| An area that is completely controlled by another country as a colonial possession |
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| The use of violence by groups against civilians to achieve a political goal |
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| The practice of raising interest rates to slow personal spending |
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| A political system in which the government suppresses all opposition and controls most aspects of people's lives |
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| The situation when the value of a country’s region foreign imports exceeds the values of its exports |
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| Organization of workers with the same trade or skill |
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| Extending across a continent |
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| A combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce competition |
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| Someone who breaks up a trust into smaller companies |
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| German submarine in the World Wars 1 and 2 |
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| Payments by the government for a limited period of time to people who have lost their jobs |
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| Nixon’s policy that called for South Vietnam to take a more active role in fighting the war and for Americans to become less involved |
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| People who take the law into their own hands |
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| Programs that gave needy people government jobs |
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| Writing which exaggerates sensational, dramatic, and gruesome events to attract readers, named for stories that were popular during the late 1800s; a type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting |
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