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Ch. 5 SS vocabulary
Ch. 5 SS Changing Ways of Life: 5th Grade
Question | Answer |
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manual labor | Work done by hand, without machines |
mechanization | Using machines to do work. |
reaper | A machine that cuts (harvests) grain. |
threshing machine | A machine that separates grain from stalks, also called a thresher. |
urbanization | The movement of people from rural (country) areas to urban (city) areas. |
settlement house | A center that provides help for those in need, especially the poor and immigrants. The most famous example is Hull House, founded by Jane Addams (Chicago, 1889). |
political machine | An organization of people who control votes in order to gain or keep political power. "Boss" Tweed's Tammany Hall in New York City is an example. |
suspension bridge | A bridge in which the road surface is hung from steel cables attached to towers. |
tenements | Buildings divided into small apartments. Tenements were often dangerous, crowded, and dirty. |
tenant | Someone who pays to use a building, apartment, or land; a renter. |
Great Migration | A period from 1915 through the 1940s when more than one million African-Americans moved from the South to the North in search of jobs, better economic opportunities, and freedom. |
enfranchise | To have the right to vote. |
suffrage | The right to vote. |
Nineteenth Amendment | An amendment made to the Constitution in 1919 giving women the right to vote. The amendment became law in 1920. |
suffragists | People who worked for a woman's right to vote. |