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S.S. - Ch. 11 Vocab
Social Studies - Unit 5 - Chapter 11 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |