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Grade 5 SS. Def

ch 11 A Growing Country

TermDefinition
Productivity the amount of goods and services produced by workers in a certain amount of time.
Reform an action that makes something better.
Annexation the act of joining two countries or pieces of land together.
Boomtown a town whose population booms, or grows very quickly.
Textile cloth or fabric.
Interchangeable parts parts made by a machine to be exactly the same size and shape.
Mass production making many identical products at once.
Entrepreneur a person who takes risks to start a business.
Research the search for facts.
Famine a widespread shortage of food.
Temperance controlling or cutting back on the drinking of alcohol.
Injustice unfair treatment that abuses a person’s right.
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 the fighting takes place in a war.
Cession something that is given up.
Wagon Train a line of covered wagons that move together.
Fortyniner a miner who went to California in 1849.
Gold rush when many people hurry to the same area to look for gold.
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