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SS 4-3
Setting the Last Frontier
definition | word |
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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 |