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Mrs. Brown
Chapter 18 US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| government subsidies | loans and land grants from the government |
| transcontintental | span the continent connecting Atlantic and Pacific coasts |
| Chisholm Trail | San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas |
| Vaqueros | Hispanic ranch hands in the Spanish Southwest |
| sodbusters | cut sod into bricks to build houses |
| reservations | tracts of land set aside for Native Americans |
| patents | licenses protecting people's rights to make, sell, or use their inventions |
| coke | soft coal with impurities removed, used as fuel for iron smelting |
| power plant | furnished electricity |
| Alexander Graham Bell | telephone |
| Guglielmo Marconi | 1895 transmitted the first radio messages |
| Henry Ford | developed a gasoline powered automobile |
| Orville and Wilbur Wright | 1903 built and tested the first successful engine powered aircraft |
| capital | money |
| corporation | a company that sold shares, or stock, of its business |
| trust | a group of companies managed by the same board of directors |
| monopoly | total control of an industry by one company |
| labor unions | dissatisfied workers organized groups to demand better pay and working conditions |
| collective bargaining | unions represent workers in bargaining with management |
| strikes | refusal to do their jobs until their employers agreed to certain demands |
| ethnic groups | same language and customs |
| tenements | huge apartment buildings |
| suburbs | residential areas that sprang up outside of city centers |
| initiative | allowed citizens to place a measure or issue on the ballot |
| referendum | gave voters the opportunity to accept or reject measures |
| WWI ended in what year | 1918 |
| 17th Amendment | provided for the direct election of senators |
| conservation | the protection and preservation of natural resources |
| imperialism | a time when powerful European nations as well as Japan created its power overseas |
| nationalism | a feeling of intense loyalty to one's country or group |
| alliances | defense agreements among nations |
| Gavrilo Princip | assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| propaganda | information designed to influence opinion |
| Bolsheviks | group of communists led by Vladimir Lenin |
| armistice | an agreement to end the fighting |
| Treaty of Versailles | treaty ending the war |
| League of Nations | international organization to preserve the peace |
| reparations | payments |
| communism | totalitarian system of government |
| nativism | anti-immigrant feelings |
| prohibition | ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol |
| 21st Amendment | repeal of prohibition |
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