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CH. 20 vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Grant | to agree to or allow |
section | a unit of land to 1 square mile (2.59 sq km) or 640 acres (259hectares) |
Jim Crows laws | laws discrimination against African Americans |
issue | matter of concern to an individual or group |
temperance | the practice of drinking little or no alcohol |
suffrage | the right to vote |
coeducation | teaching males and females in the same classes |
transcontinental | extending or going across a continent |
streetcars | wheeled vehicle that moves along rails in the city streets and used to carry passengers within the city |
switchboards | a structure used to connect telephone calls manually |
enormous | very large |
mortgage | a legal agreement in which a person borrows money to buy property and pays back the money over a period of years |
monopoly | exclusive possession or control |
Grange | an organization for farmers that provided social events and worked for economic reform |
cooperative | a business or organization owned and operated by the people who work in it or who use its services |
Progressivism | a reform movement that tried to correct social and political problems |
target | to direct actin against an object, entity, or problem |
trust | a combination of companies formed by agreement to reduce competition |
regulate | to make rules or laws to control something |
intrastate | connecting or existing in areas within a sate |