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Unit 5 Chapter 8
Industrialization
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sharecroppers | farmers who lived and worked on land owned by someone else in exchange for part of the income when the crop was harvested and sold. |
| Tenant Farmers | farmers who owned their own animals, equipment, and supplies, but rented land from a landowner. They paid the landowner back by giving up a share of the harvest. |
| erosion | the wearing away of rock, land, soil or a physical feature by the action of wind, water, or ice. |
| industrialization | the widespread development of industry |
| urbanization | the development of an area to gain more attributes of a city, including a higher population |
| innovation | a new idea, improvement, or method |