| Term | Definition |
|---|
| immigrant | a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there |
| sod | surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots |
| suburb | a residential district located on the outskirts of a city |
| gilded | made from or covered with gold |
| subsidy | a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public |
| grange | an outlying farm |
| recall | the act of removing an official by petition |
| transcontinental | spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent |
| patent | a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention |
| prospector | someone who explores an area for mineral deposits |
| tepee | a native American tent |
| entrepreneur | someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it |
| referendum | established a procedure by which voters cast ballots for or against proposed laws |
| reservation | AN AREA OF LAND ASSIGNED TO THE INDIAN PEOPLE BY THE US GOVERNMENT |
| corporation | an organization that is authorized by law to carry on an activity but treated as though it were a single person |
| muckracker | writer or journalist of the early 1900s who uncovered shameful conditions in business and other areas of American life. |
| open range | land not fenced or divided into lots |
| monopoly | (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller |
| prohibition | a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages |
| homesteader | a person staking a claim to own land, promising to improve it |
| (a) trust | a group of companies that is controlled by a single group of business leaders is an example of |
| tenement | Multifamily urban dwellings |
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