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Social Studies
Campbell's Chapter 5 Vocabulary review
Vocabulary Term | Definition |
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manual labor | work performed by hand |
mechanization | using machines to do work |
reaper | machine that cuts wheat |
threshing machine | machine for seperating grain from its stalk |
urbanization | movement of people from rural areas to cities |
tenement | building divided into small apartments |
settlement house | a place where needy people receive assistance |
political machine | organization of people who control votes to gain power |
suspension bridge | bridge supported by steel cables |
tenant | someone who pays rent for land or buildings |
enfranchise | to give someone the right to vote |
Great Migration | large-scale movement of African Americans from the South to the North in the early 1900s |
suffrage | the right to vote |
suffragist | person who fought to win suffrage |
Nineteenth Amendment | gave women the right to vote |