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Age of Oil and WWI
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Boom and Bust Cycle | a time period of economic growth followed by economic decline |
| Progressive | people who want social change in a country |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Petroleum | thick oil used for fuel purposes; found deep in the Earth |
| Prohibition | the banning of alcohol |
| Derrick | a structure used to move drilling equipment over an oil well |
| Boomtown | a town that came about due to sudden economic success |
| Black Gold | the nickname for the oil found in the Earth |
| crude | something in its natural state with no changes |
| fracking | a technique used to extract oil from the ground |