social studies vocab
vocabulary words for social studies.
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- subsidy
- grant of money from the government to a person or a company for an action intended to benefit the public.
- sectionalism
- loyalty to a region.
- draft
- the selection of persons for required military service.
- offensive
- position of attacking or the attack itself.
- collective bargaining
- dicussion between an employer and union representatives of workers over wages, hours, and working conditions.
- amnesty
- the granting of pardon to a large number of persons; protection from prosecution for an illegal act.
- literacy test
- a method used to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specified level.
- sweatshop
- a shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions.
- lode
- a mass or strip of ore sandwitched between 2 layers of rock.
- border ruffians
- Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas's election during the mid 1850's.
- ragtime
- a type of music with a strong rhythm and a lively melody with accented notes, which was popular in the early 1900's.
- suburb
- residential areas that sprang up close to or surrounding cities as a result of improvements in transportation.
- scalawag
- name given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican reconstruction of the south.
- shareholder
- a person who invests in a corperation by buying a stock and is a partial owner.
- consolidation
- the practice of combining separate companies into 1
- assembly line
- a production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as the item passes before him or her.
- ironclad
- armored navel vessel.
- free silver
- the unlimited production of silver coins.
- horizontal integration
- the combining of conpeting firms into 1 corportaion.
- secession
- withdrawal from the union.