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American Pagent Chapter 27 Flashcards

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

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642444228MegalopolisAn extensive, heavily populates area, containing several dense urban centers.1
642444229Tenementa multi-dwelling building, often poor or overcrowded2
642444230Affluencean abundance of wealth3
642444231despotismgovernment by an absolute or tyrannical ruler4
642444232parochialconcerning a parish or small district5
642444233sweatshopa factory where employees are forced to work long hours under difficult conditions for meager wages6
642444234paupera poor person7
642444235converta person who turns from one religion to another8
642444236fundamentalista protestant who rejects religious modernism and adheres to a strict and literal interpretation of Christian doctrine and scriptures9
642444237agnosticone who believes that there can be no human knowledge of any God of gods10
642444238behavioral psychologyexamines human action11
642444239syndicatedmaterial that is sold by an organization for publication in several newspapers12
642444240tycoona wealthy business person13
642444241prohibitionforbidding by law the manufacture sale or consumption of liquor14
642444242rusticconcerning unsophisticated country ways crude and inelegant15

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