Alabama History Chapter 9 Vocabulary

an economy that is farm-related

• suburb

• agricultural economy

• expand

• sharecropper

A farmer who worked someone else's land and gave the landowner a share of the harvest; the landowner provided seeds, tools, and a place to live

• tuition

• Jim Crow Laws

• tenant farmer

• sharecropper

Getting an item now and paying for it over time

• expand

• tuition

• credit

• civil rights

A farmer who had seeds and tools but farmed someone else's land; the farmer paid the landowner a share of the harvest

• tenant farmer

• sharecropper

• impurity

• coke

A school for training teachers

• coke

• agricultural economy

• tuition

• normal school

School charges

• credit

• suburb

• tuition

• expand

to enlarge or increase

• expand

• tuition

• coke

• impurity

a fuel to heat blast furnaces; made by baking coal in a very hot furnace

• credit

• civil rights

• expand

• coke

unwanted part, such as a pollutant

• impurity

• credit

• civil rights

• tuition

An area outside of a city (more densely populated than rural areas)

• agricultural economy

• normal school

• Jim Crow Laws

• suburb