Vocabulary For History
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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INDUSTRIALIZATION
- to build and operate factories and businesses in a city.
- Sentence: Texas' transportation industry industrialized
- With texas as a whole.
URBANIZATION
- the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger
- as more and more people begin living and working in central areas
- Sentence: the urbanization of Texas happened in the 1800's.
CITY COMMISSION
- Voters elect a small commission, typically, from five to seven members
- On a plurality at large voting basis. These commissioners constitute
- The legislative body of the city and as a group are responsible for taxation
- Appropriations ordinances and other general functions.
- Sentence:one city commissioner may be designated to function as chairman or mayor.
OPEC
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- Sentence: OPEC is a organization of countries
- That export petroleum.
PETROLEUM
- a kind of oil that comes from below the ground and that is the source
- of gasoline and other products
- Sentence: petroleum is taken from the ground and sent to processing.
WILDCATTER
- one that drills wells in the hope of finding oil in territory not known
- to be an oil field
- Sentence: many people became wildcatters in the oil boom era.
EMBARGO
- a government order that limits trade in some way
- Sentence: many countries have embargoes with other countries
