American Pagent Chapter 27 Flashcards
America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
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| 642444228 | Megalopolis | An extensive, heavily populates area, containing several dense urban centers. | 1 | |
| 642444229 | Tenement | a multi-dwelling building, often poor or overcrowded | 2 | |
| 642444230 | Affluence | an abundance of wealth | 3 | |
| 642444231 | despotism | government by an absolute or tyrannical ruler | 4 | |
| 642444232 | parochial | concerning a parish or small district | 5 | |
| 642444233 | sweatshop | a factory where employees are forced to work long hours under difficult conditions for meager wages | 6 | |
| 642444234 | pauper | a poor person | 7 | |
| 642444235 | convert | a person who turns from one religion to another | 8 | |
| 642444236 | fundamentalist | a protestant who rejects religious modernism and adheres to a strict and literal interpretation of Christian doctrine and scriptures | 9 | |
| 642444237 | agnostic | one who believes that there can be no human knowledge of any God of gods | 10 | |
| 642444238 | behavioral psychology | examines human action | 11 | |
| 642444239 | syndicated | material that is sold by an organization for publication in several newspapers | 12 | |
| 642444240 | tycoon | a wealthy business person | 13 | |
| 642444241 | prohibition | forbidding by law the manufacture sale or consumption of liquor | 14 | |
| 642444242 | rustic | concerning unsophisticated country ways crude and inelegant | 15 |