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SS Chapter 4
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| reconstruction | time of rebuilding |
| assassinate | murdered in a sudden or secret attack |
| black codes | laws that limited the rights of former slaves |
| acquittal | verdict of not guilty |
| freedman | men, women and children who had been slaves |
| sharecropping | a landowner gives a worker a cabin, mules, tools and seed to farm his land |
| carpetbagger | people from the north who moved south to take part in Reconstruction governments |
| scalawag | a rascal ... who supports a cause for his own gain |
| secret ballot | voting method that doesnt allow anyone to know how a person voted |
| segregation | practice of keeping people in separate groups based on their race or culture |
| boom | time of fast economic or population growth |
| refinery | a factory where metals, fuels, and other material are cleaned and made into useable products |
| prospector | someone who is searching for gold, silver, or other mineral resources |
| burst | time of fast economic decline |
| long drive | a trip made by ranchers to lead cattle to market or the railroad |
| homesteader | people who settled plots of land in the Great Plains |
| open range | free grazing land |
| reservation | area of land set aside by the government for use by only Native Americans |
| free entrerprise | economic system where people start and run their own businesses with little control by the government |
| transcontinental railroad | railroad that crossed the entire continent of North America |
| entrepreneur | a person who sets up and runs a business |
| petroleum | oil |
| capital | money needed to set up or improve a business |
| human resource | workers, ideas and skills the bring to their jobs |
| old immigration | immigrants that come from the part of the world as earlier immigrants (Britian, Germany, Ireland) |
| new immigration | immigrants that come from new areas (southern and eastern Europe) after 1890 |
| advertisement | public announcement that tells people about a new product or an an opportunity |
| tenement | poorly build apartment buildings |
| prejudice | unfair feeling, hate or dislike for members of a certain group because of their background, race, or religion |
| regulation | controls |
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