APUSH chapter 25

Sweatshop

A factory where employees are forced to work long hours under difficult conditions for meager wages. "The women of hull house successfully lobbied in 1893 for an Illinois antisweatshop law that protected women workers..."

Tenement

A multi dwelling building, often poor of overcrowded. "The cities...harbored...towering skyscrapers and stinking __________

Convert

A person who turns from one religion or set of beliefs to another. "A firstly field for converts was found in America's harried, nerve-racked, and urbanized civilization..."

Pauper

A poor person, often one who lives on tax-supported charity. "The first restrictive law...banged the gate in the faces of paupers..."

Tycoon

A wealthy businessperson, especially one who openly displays power and position. "Two Jew journalistic _______ emerged."

Affluence

An abundance of wealth. "These leafy 'bedroom communities' eventual ringed the brick-and-concrete cities with a green belt of affluence

Megalopolis

An extensive, heavily populated area, containing several dense urban centers "...gave way to the inmmense and impersonal megalopolis..."

Parochial

Concerning a religious parish or small district. (By extension, the term is used, often negatively, to refer to narrow or local perspectives as distinct from broad or cosmopolitan outlooks.) "Catholics expanded their parochial-school system..."

Prohibition

Forbidding by law the manufacture, sale, or consumption of liquor. (Temperance is the voluntary abstention from liquor consumption.) "Statewide prohibition... Was sweeping new states into the 'dry' column."

Despotism

Government by an absolute or tyrannical ruler. "...people had grown accustomed to cringing before _________."

Syndicated

In journalism, material that is sold by an organization for publication in several newspapers. "Bare-knuckle editorials were, to an increasing degree, being supplanted by feature articles and non-controversial ___________ material."

Agnostic

One who believe that there can be no human knowledge of any God or gods. "The...skeptic...lectured widely on 'Some mistakes of Moses' and 'Why I am an Agnostic."

Feminist(feminism)

One who promotes complete political, social, and economic equality of opportunity for women. "...in 1898 they heard the voice of a major ________ prophet."

Behavioral psychology

The branch of psychology that examines human action, often considering it ore important than mental or inward states. "His (work) helped to establish the modern discipline of __________ ___________."

Fundamentalist

A conservative Protestant who rejects religious modernism and adheres to a strict and literal interpretation of Christian doctrine and scriptures. "Conservatives, or 'fundamentalists,' stood firmly on the scripture..."