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Age of Oil and WWI
Term | Definition |
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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 |