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MS studies ch.7-8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Segregation | Separation of the races |
| Lynching | mob murder by hanging, shooting, or burning |
| Credit | the ability to buy something now and pay for it later |
| Sharecroppers | persons who did not own the land they farmed, the house they lived in or often the tools they used |
| Boll weevil | a small beetle that cotton crop for several years |
| Gold Standard | the dollar was convertible into gold only |
| 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 |
| Patronage | appointing people to government positions as rewards for political support |
| Primary | an election to nominate candidates for office in which all of a political party's members vote for the candidates of their choice |
| Progressive movement | people who believed that government was best equipped to correct the ills of society |
| Lobbyist | a person paid to represent the interests of a company or special group |
| Migration | movement from 1 state to settle to another one |
| Capital investment | spending money to build factories, highways, and buildings |
| Junior colleges | schools that offered the first 2 years of college work |
| Fiberboard | a building material made of compressed wood fines, and opened a factory to produce his new wood product |
| Prohibition | a period when the making and selling of alcoholic beverages was illegal |
| Moonshine | illegally distilled liquor |
| Depression | a continued downturn in economic activity |
| 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 |
| 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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