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US history 1
Question | Answer |
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vigilance committees | committee that acted the law |
open range | vast area of grassland the government let ranchers use |
hacienda | huge ranchers the covered large areas of land |
homestead | a tract of public land for settlement |
bonanza farms | these were huge wheat farms |
assimilate | to join another culture and act as they do to me absorbed into |
Indian peace commission | proposed creating 2 large indian reservation on the plains |
hydraulic mining | mining that caused problems with the land |
long drive | cattle moved long distances for sale |
barrios | neighbor that Hispanics settled in |
dry farming | moisture could be found on using this planting method |
annuity | annual payments from the government paid to native Americans |
sand creek massacre | attack by john chivingtion on native american |
Dawes act | allotted 160 acres of land to each head of household of native Americans |
entrepreneur | one who organizes, manages and assumes the risk of a business or enterprise |
innovation | a new idea or method |
industrialization | develop industry on an extensive scale in a country or region, large scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises |
uprearing | to raise up, to build, to elevate the dignity of |
time zone | a geographical region in which the same standard time is kept |
fruition | attainment of anything desired; realization, accomplishment |
morrill tariff | 1861 a high protective tariff in the US adopted march 2, 1861. tripled tariff rate from 15% to 48%. |
patent | A grant by the federal government giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell an invention for set period of time. |
laissez- faire | policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy |
protective tariff | taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally |
alexander bell | 1876 thetelephone |
free enterprise | an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control |
suspension bridge | bridges in which roadway is suspended by steel cables |
perilous | involving or full of grave risk, or peril; hazardous; dangerous |
mass production | the production of quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line |
integrity | moral and ethical principles |
capitalism | private individuals or corporation |
edwin drake | drilled for in titusville, pennsylvania |
ingenuity | the quality of being cleverly inventive or inventiveness |
gross national product | the total value of goods and services produced by a country during a year |
persistent | lasting or enduring tenaciously, constantly repeated |
thomas edison | established research laboratory at menlo park, new jersey, 1,000 patents invented the light bulb |