First Semester Flashcards
(40 cards)
To set free
Enfranchised
Killing of family
Fratricidal
Showing skill or cleverness
Adroit
Black and white offspring
Mulatto
Existing before the war
Antebellum
Sway through; lack of equilibrium
Vacillated
Attendant or officer in a noble household
Yeoman
To agree
Acquiesced
Having superior weight or influence
Preponderances
Only land owners can have water from rivers
Riparian rights
A mixture of races
Miscegenation
Process of which several steps of a business are owned by a company
Vertical integration
Company created to posses other companies
Holding company
Exclusive ownership
Monopoly
Maker of wooden casks or tubs
Cooper
Industrial workers of the world
Wobblies
Small Jewish town in Europe
Shtetl
Where Mexicans live
Barrios
Getting gain in a dishonest way
Graft
Journalism based on crude exaggeration
Yellow journalism
Permitted voters to make a law
Initiative
The vote
Referendum
Removing an elected official
Recall
Illegalizing
Prohibition