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Chapter 8 vocab
Chapter 8 vocab for Mr. Waits class
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 new policies, 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. |