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- poll tax
- a tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote
- arsenal
- a storage place for weapons and ammunition
- ethnic group
- Group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or combination of such characteristics
- free silver
- the unlimited production of silver coins
- dry farming
- a way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in ground where there is some moisture
- open range
- land not fenced or divided into the lots
- carpetbagger
- name given to Northern whites who moved South after the war and supported the Republicans
- segregation
- the seperation or isolation of a race, class, or group
- dividend
- a regular payment received by stockholders for each share that they own
- trust
- a combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce competition
- literacy test
- a method used to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specified level
- shareholder
- a person who invests in a corp. by buying stock and is a partial owner
- freedmen
- a person freed from slavery
- mass production
- the production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line
- border ruffians
- Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas' election during the mid-1850
- vaudeville
- a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the U.S. in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy, song, and dance
- standard gauge
- the uniform width of 4 feet, 8.5 inches for railroad tracks, adopted during the 1880s
- black codes
- laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to eploit African American workers
- injunction
- a court order to stop an action, such as a strike
- collective bargaining
- discussion between an employer and union representatives of workers over wages, hours, and working conditions
- consolidation
- the practice of combining separate companies into one
- draft
- the selection of persons for required military service
- trade union
- organization of workers with the same trade or skill
- assimilate
- to absorb a group into the culture of a larger population
- emancipate
- to free from slavery
- realism
- an approach to lit, art, and theater tat shows things as they really are
- corporation
- a group that is authorized by law to carry on an activity but having the rights and duties of single person
- casualty
- a military person killed, wounded, or captured
- civil war
- conflict between opposing groups of citizens of the same country
- greenback
- a piece of U.S. paper money first issued by the North during the Civil War
- merger
- the combining of two or more businesses into one
- vigilante
- people who take the law into their own hands
- horizontal integration
- the combining of competing firms into one corp.
- Rebel
- Confederate soldier, so called b/c of opposition to the established gov.
- secede
- to leave or withdraw
- cooperative
- store where farmers bought products from each oter; an enterprise owned and operated by those who use its services
- ore
- a mineral mined for the valuable substance it contains, such as silver
- secession
- withdrawal from the Union
- ironclad
- armored naval vessel
- sectionalism
- loyalty to a region
- assembly line
- a production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as the item passses before him or her
- yankee
- Union soldier
- sweatshop
- a shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions
- offensive
- position of attacking or the attack itself
- vertical intergration
- the combining of companies that supply equipment and services needed for particular industry
- lode
- a mass or strip of ore sandwiched between layers of rock
- subsidy
- grant of money from the gov. to a person or a company for an action intended to benefit the public
- scalawag
- name given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South
- amnesty
- the granting of pardon to a large number of persons; protection for an illegal act
- states' rights
- rights and powers independent of the federal gov. that are reserved for the states by the Constitution
- suburb
- residential areas that sprang up close to or surrounding cities as a result of improvements in transportation
- blockade
- cut off an area by means of troops or warships to stop supplies or people from coming in or going out
- lynching
- putting to death a person by the illegal action of a mob
- rebate
- discount or return of part of a payment
- bounty
- money given as a reward to encourage enlistment in the army
- fugitive
- runaway or trying to run away
- nomadic
- moving from place to place with no permanent home
- The Gilded Age
- the name associated with America in the late 1800s, referring to the extravagent wealth and the terrible poverty that lay underneath
- ragtime
- a type of music w/ a strong rhythm and a lively melody with accented notes, which was popular in early 1900s