SS Vocabulary

Chapters 4 A & B

Someone who is looking for gold or silver

Prospectors

A person living on land granted by the government

Homesteader

A factory where metals, fuels, and other materials are cleaned and made

into usable products

Refinery

A public announcement that tells people about a product or an

opportunity

Advertisement

A trip made by ranchers to lead cattle to market

Long drive

A time of fast economic growth. There’s money to be made.

Boom

A time of fast economic decline(There’s no more money to be made)

Bust

An unfair feeling of hate or dislike for members of a certain group of people because of their background, race, or

religion

Prejudice

A voting method in which no one knows how anyone else voted

Secret Ballot

The practice of keeping people in separate groups based on race or

culture

Segregation

A verdict of not guilty

acquittal

Land on which livestock can graze freely

Open Range

A system of working the land in which the worker is paid with a share of the

crop

sharecropping

oil

Petroleum

People who came from northern and western Europe to settle in the United

States

Old immigration

The time after the Civil War during which the South was rebuilt

Reconstruction

A poorly built apartment building

Tenement

A rule or law

Regulation

A Northerner who moved to the South to take part in Reconstruction

government (they were mostly there to make money)

Carpetbagger

Laws limiting the rights of former slaves in the South

Black codes

People who came from southern and central Europe and other parts of the

world after 1880 to settle in the United States

New immigration

To murder a leader by sudden or secret attack

Assassinate

An area of land set aside by the government for use only by Native

Americans

reservation

The railway line that crossed the US

Transcontinental Railroad