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Ch 8 KS Vocab
Ch. 8 KS Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Populism | US political movement that sought to represent the interestes of farmers and laborers in the 1890s. |
Industrialization | To become industrial. |
Suffrage | The right or priviledge of voting. |
Electioneering | To work actively for a candidate or political party. |
Inheritance | Something received from an ancestor by legal succession or will. |
Lobby | A group of persons trying to influence public officials in favor of a specific cause. |
Foreclosure | THe ending of the rights of a debtor to personal property. |
Socialism | THeories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy. |
Progressive | Promoting or favoring progress toward better conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods. |
Moral | Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior. |
Inaugural Address | A speech given by a person being formally inducted into office. |
Materialism | The attitude that physical well-being and worldly possessions create the greatest good. |
Temperance | Restraint in the use of or abstinence from alcoholic liquors. |
Prohibition | The period during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages was enforced. |
Ratify | To approve. |
Utopian | Characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection. |