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chapter 5 vocab
| TERM | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| manual labor | jobs done by hand |
| mechanization | using machines to make work easier |
| threshing machine | machine that separated the wheat grain from the plant stalk |
| reaper | machine that cuts grain |
| Cyrus McCormick | a farmer and inventor who perfected the reaper |
| Aaron Montgomery Ward | started the first mail order business in 1872 |
| Richard Sears and Alvah C. Roebuck | formed a large mail order company |
| urbanization | movement of people from rural areas to cities |
| tenements | buildings that are divided into small apartments |
| hull house | a settlement house started by Jane Addams in 1889 |
| political machine | an organization of people who control votes to gain political power |
| Tammany hall | a powerful political machine |
| "boss" William M. Tweed | a Tammany Hall leader |
| suspension bridge | a bridge that is hung from steel cables |
| tenant | someone who pays rent to use land or buildings |
| enfranchised | having the right to vote |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | in 1901 helped start the NAACP |
| Booker T. Washington | a former slave who believed that there was no quick fix to discrimination |
| George Washington Carver | an African American scientist |
| suffrage | a term for the right to vote |
| suffragists | a term for people fighting for women's rights to vote |
| Nineteenth Amendment | gave women the right to vote in 1919 |
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