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Category: U.S. History
20.2 Vocab
Here are the newest U.S. History Vocab. Study and practice! 🙂
20. harbor: sea port
21. seeking: looking for
22. liberty: freedom
23. steerage: the part of a ship for passengers who pay the cheapest tickets.
24. ill: sick
25. old immigrants: people who came to America before 1880
26. new immigrants: people who came to America after 1880
27. escape: run away
28. Advertise: to announce something
29. unable: not able
30. denied: refused
31. Chinese Exclusion Act: a law signed in 1882 that did not allow Chinese Immigration to America.
32. xenophobia: fear of immigrants
33. prejudice: to have bad thoughts about someone because of their race, gender, religion or age.
34. Urbanization: the growth of cities (urban area)
35. Discrimination: treating people unfairly because of race, gender, religion or age.
36. Jim Crow Laws: laws that separated African Americans and whites in public places.
37. segregation: to separate people by race, religion, gender or age
20.1 Vocab!
Chapter 20 is here! Here are the new vocab terms for section 20.1!
- dweller: a person who lives somewhere
- rural area: areas with villages and farms
- urban areas: cities with bridges, skyscrapers, large population
- increase: move up
- decrease: move down
- push factors: reasons that force immigrants to leave a country.
- pull factors: reasons that attract immigrants to come to a new country.
- seaport: a place where ships stop
- specialize: to have one or two industries only
- isolated: separated or alone
- rapidly: quickly
- Mass production: producing large amounts of things in a short amount of time
- employee: a worker
- employer: the boss
- employment: jobs
- raw materials: natural resources that still have not been turned into a product
- salary: the amount of money a person makes
- ship (verb): to move or transport from place to place
- condition: the way something is
Ch. 19 Quizlet — ALL 72 WORDS!
19.3 Vocab…Last ones this chapter!
- Nation: Country
- Success: to be good at what you do
- Cattle: cows and sheep
- Ranching: taking care of cattle
- Shipped: to send a large amount of something
- Hogs: Pigs
- Slaughter: to kill an animal for food
- Transported: Moved
- Refrigerator: a cold place to store food
- Construction: building
- Link: Connect
- Settle: live
- Employment: Jobs
- Invent: to make something for the first time
- Pride: to be proud
- Inventor: a person who invents
- Invention: a thing that is invented
- Wizard: a person who has magical powers
- Major: large
- Minor: small
- rural: farms and villages
- urban: large cities with skyscrapers
Ch. 19 Quizlet Vocab *UPDATED #1-50*
19.2 Vocab!
25. Stream: a small river
26. Village: a small city
27. Valuable: something that has a high price
28. Attempt: to try
29. Pipe: a long tube that transports water and oil
30. Refinery: a factory to purify oil
31. Appear: show up
32. Oil well: a place where oil comes out from a pipe
33. Risky: dangerous
34. Refine: to make clean; purify
35. Kerosene: oil used in lamps
36. Gasoline: oil used in cars
37. Giant: very large, HUGE
38. drilling: digging underground using a machine
39. local: inside the city or neighborhood Ù…Øلي
40. corporation: a large company owned by stockholders شركة
41. stockholders: men and women who own a corporation and put their money into it مالك الأسهم
42. simple: easy way of doing something بسيط
43. criticize: to say bad things about انتقد
44. critic: a person who criticizes
45. monopoly: a large corporation that has little competition
46. competition: to compete between two or more people
47. Invest: to put money in a company for profit
48. liability: risk or danger
49. capital: money that stockholders use to invest in a company
50. stock: the value of a company
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AGS Book Chapter 19 Vocab!
19.1 Vocab
Team, New Chapter = New Vocab List. Let’s get at it!Â
- Natural Resources: things that are found in nature (water, gold, oil, trees)
- Petroleum: a liquid that can be turned into oil.
- Improve: make something better
- Entrepreneur: a person who starts a new business.
- Opportunity: Chance
- Bridge: a structure that connects two places.
- Rust: when iron turns red from water.
- Crack: break
- Flexible: able to bend
- Purify: Clean
- Produce: make
- Method: a way
- Impure: not clean or dirty
- Plant: a large factory
- Laborer: Worker
- Industry: Business
- Immigrant: a person who moves from one country to another
- Inexpensive: cheap or not expensive
- Suspension bridge: a bridge with wires, chains and 2 towers
- Skyscrapers: very tall buildings found in the city.
- Stories: levels
- Material: what something is made from
- Generous: Gives out a lot of money
- Rapidly: quickly