ss vocabulary chapters 4 a & b. someone who is looking for gold or silver
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SS Vocabulary
Chapters 4 A & B
Someone who is looking for gold or silver
Prospectors
A person living on land granted by the government
Homesteader
A factory where metals, fuels, and other materials are cleaned and made
into usable products
Refinery
A public announcement that tells people about a product or an
opportunity
Advertisement
A trip made by ranchers to lead cattle to market
Long drive
A time of fast economic growth. There’s money to be made.
Boom
A time of fast economic decline(There’s no more money to be made)
Bust
An unfair feeling of hate or dislike for members of a certain group of people because of their background, race, or
religion
Prejudice
A voting method in which no one knows how anyone else voted
Secret Ballot
The practice of keeping people in separate groups based on race or
culture
Segregation
A verdict of not guilty
acquittal
Land on which livestock can graze freely
Open Range
A system of working the land in which the worker is paid with a share of the
crop
sharecropping
oil
Petroleum
People who came from northern and western Europe to settle in the United
States
Old immigration
The time after the Civil War during which the South was rebuilt
Reconstruction
A poorly built apartment building
Tenement
A rule or law
Regulation
A Northerner who moved to the South to take part in Reconstruction
government (they were mostly there to make money)
Carpetbagger
Laws limiting the rights of former slaves in the South
Black codes
People who came from southern and central Europe and other parts of the
world after 1880 to settle in the United States
New immigration
To murder a leader by sudden or secret attack
Assassinate
An area of land set aside by the government for use only by Native
Americans
reservation
The railway line that crossed the US
Transcontinental Railroad