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SS 4-3
Setting the Last Frontier
| definition | word |
|---|---|
| Time of fast economic or population growth. | Boom |
| A factory where metals, fuels, and other materials re cleaned and made into useable product. | Refinery |
| Those searching for gold, silver, and other mineral resources. | Prospector |
| Time of fast economic decline, left a town lifeless. | Bust |
| Cattle trails such as the Sedalia trail. | Long drive |
| People who settled in the 160 acres. | Homesteader |
| Free grazing land. | Open range |
| An area of land set aside by the government for use only by Native Americans. | Reservation |
| An economic system in which people are able to start and run businesses with little control by the government. | Free enterprise |
| A railroad that crossed America. | Transcontinental railroad |
| A person who sets up and runs a business. | Entrepreneur |
| Or oil. | Petroleum |
| The money needed to set up or improve a business. | Capital |
| The workers and the ideas and skills they bring to their jobs. | Human resources |