Unit 8 Vocabulary REVIEW

A person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there.

• Tenant Farmer

• Textile Industry

• Immigrant

• Overproduction

The development of industries for the machine production of goods.

• Industrialization

• Populist Party

• Hurricane of 1893

• Tenant Farmer

Any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting.

• Textile Industry

• Boll Weevil

• Supply and Demand

• Grange

Farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops.

• Overproduction

• Tenant Farmer

• Boil Weevil

• Grange

A condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them.

• Supply and Demand

• Grange

• Overproduction

• Farmers' Alliance

An economic concept that states that the price of a good rises and falls depending on how many people want it (demand) and depending on how much of the good is available (supply).

• Homestead Act

• Supply and Demand

• Overproduction

• Morrill Act

Insect whose larvae feed on cotton crops; decimated cotton production in the southeastern United States.

• Hurricane of 1893

• Boll Weevil

• Overproduction

• Supply and Demand

An association formed by farmers in the last 1800s to make life better for farmers by sharing information about crops, prices, and supplies.

• Grange

• Farmer's Alliance

• Supply and Demand

• Nativism

Network of farmers' organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s.

• Farmers' Alliance

• Populist Party

• Grange

• Boll Weevil

U.S. political party formed in 1892 representing mainly farmers, favoring free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other monopolies.

• Populist Party

• Overproduction

• Morrill Act

• Hurricane of 1893