MS studies ch.7-8
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| Segregation | Separation of the races
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| Lynching | mob murder by hanging, shooting, or burning
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| Credit | the ability to buy something now and pay for it later
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| Sharecroppers | persons who did not own the land they farmed, the house they lived in or often the tools they used
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| Boll weevil | a small beetle that cotton crop for several years
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| Gold Standard | the dollar was convertible into gold only
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| Populist | demanded tariff reform, a graduated income tax, regulation of rail-roads, the use of silver as money, and the direct election of U.S. senators
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| Patronage | appointing people to government positions as rewards for political support
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| Primary | an election to nominate candidates for office in which all of a political party's members vote for the candidates of their choice
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| Progressive movement | people who believed that government was best equipped to correct the ills of society
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| Lobbyist | a person paid to represent the interests of a company or special group
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| Migration | movement from 1 state to settle to another one
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| Capital investment | spending money to build factories, highways, and buildings
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| Junior colleges | schools that offered the first 2 years of college work
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| Fiberboard | a building material made of compressed wood fines, and opened a factory to produce his new wood product
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| Prohibition | a period when the making and selling of alcoholic beverages was illegal
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| Moonshine | illegally distilled liquor
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| Depression | a continued downturn in economic activity
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| New Deal | a wide variety of programs passed during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt that were designed to improve the economy and society and to relieve the suffering of the unemployment
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| BAWI | Balance agriculture with industry, a program established by Governor White in 1963 to develop MS's industrial base to match its agricultural base
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