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S.S. - Ch. 11 Vocab
Social Studies - Unit 5 - Chapter 11 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Textile | Cloth or fabric. |
Interchangeable Parts | Parts made by a machine to be exactly the same in size and shape. |
Mass Production | Making many products at once. |
Productivity | The amount of goods and services produced by workers in a certain amount of time. |
Entrepreneur | A person who takes risks to start a business. |
Research | The search for facts. |
Famine | A widespread shortage of food. |
Reform | An action that makes something better. |
Temperance | Controlling or cutting back on the drinking of alcohol. |
Injustice | Unfair treatment that abuses a person's rights. |
Annexation | The act of joining two countries or pieces ofland together. |
Manifest Destiny | The belief that the United States should spread across the entire North American continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. |
Front | Where fighting takes place in a war. |
Cession | Something that is given up. |
Wagon Train | A line of covered wagons that moved together. |
Forty-Niner | A miner who went to California around 1849. |
Gold Rush | Takes place when many people hurry to the same area to look for gold. |
Boomtown | A town whose population booms, or growns very quickly. |