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Chapt 8 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Foreclosure | The ending of the rights of a debtor to personal property |
Industrialization | To become industrial |
Materialism | The Attitude that physical well being and worldly possessions create the greatest good |
Populism | A U.S. political movement that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890’s |
Progressive | Promoting or favoring progress toward better conditions or me politics,ideas, or methods |
Prohibition | The period (1920-1933) during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was in force |
Socialism | Theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy |
Suffrage | The right or privilege of voting |
Temperance | Restraint in the use of or abstinence from alcoholic liquors |