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SS Chapter Eight
term | definition |
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foreclosure | the ending of the rights of a debtor to personal property |
industrialization | to become industrial |
lobby | a group of persons trying to influence public officials in a favor of a specific cause |
materialism | the attitude that physical well being and worldly possessions create the greatest good |
progressive | promoting or favoring progress toward better conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods |
prohibition | the period (1920, 1933) during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcohol beverages was in force |
socialism | theories or systems of social governments in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls economy |
suffrage | the right or privilege of voting |
temperance | restraint in the use of or abstinence from alcohol liquor |