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Ch 20 vocabulary
ch 20 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| grant | to agree to or allow |
| section | A unit of land equal to 1 square mile |
| jim crow laws | laws discriminating against african americans |
| issue | matter of concern to an indiviual or group |
| temperance | the practice of driking little or acohol |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| coeducation | teachihng males and frmales in the same clases |
| transcontinental | extending or going across a continet |
| enormous | very large |
| streetcar | wheeled vehicle that moves along rails in city steets and use carry passengs within the city |
| swithchboard | a structure used to connect telephones calls menually |
| grange | an organization fpr farmers that provided social events and worked for econimic reform |
| cooperative | a bussines or organization owened and opperate by the poeple who woek in the severce |
| mortgage | a legal agreement in which a person borrows money to buy property and pays back |
| monopply | exclusive possion or crotols |
| progressive | a reform movement that tried to connect social and pollocatal probles |
| trust | a cobination of a comparisons formend by agrrement to reduce compettion |
| regulate | toi makes rules to crontols someting |
| intrastate | conneting or existing in areas with9n state |
| traget | to direct action against an object or problems |