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KS History Key Terms
Chapter 6, Lessons 1 - 3
Question | Answer |
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a period when the economy is suffering from mass unemployment and low business activity | depression |
someone willing to take risks by investing in and managing new businesses | entrepreneur |
to remove precious natural resources from under the ground | extract |
the spread of factories and machines in a city or country | industrialization |
the process of buying stocks in a company | investing |
the belief that physical comfort and possessions are more important than anything else | materialism |
small pieces of ownership in a company | stocks |
a group of companies that works together to beat out the competition in an industry | trust |
the making, selling, or transporting of illegal alcohol | bootlegging |
to help a candidate or political party win an election | electioneering |
a speech given by a person before they formally take office | inaugural address |
to try to influence lawmakers to take a specific action | lobby |
having to do with a city or town | municipal |
the effort to end the use, production, and sale of alcohol | prohibition |
to give formal approval; confirm | ratify |
the right to vote | suffrage |
the complete avoidance of alcoholic beverages | temperance |
an economic system where the production of all goods and services is owned by private citizens, not the government | capitalism |
when a lender, often a bank, takes back property because the payee has failed to make payments on it | foreclosure |
to make money out of metal | mint |
a US political movement that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890's | populism |
promoting or favoring progress toward better conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods | progressive |
a system where the people as a community or the government own the major industries of a country | socialism |
describing an idealized or perfect place | utopian |