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Social Studies
Campbell's Chapter 5 Vocabulary review
| Vocabulary Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |