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chapter 9 vocab U.S
| term | definition |
|---|---|
| specialization | In farming, the raising of one or two crops for sale rather than a variety of foods for personal use. |
| market revolution | The major change in the U.S. economy produced by people’s beginning to buy and sell goods rather than make them for themselves. |
| capitalism | An economic system in which private individuals and corporations control the means of production and use them to earn profits. |
| entrepreneur | A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. |
| telegraph | A device for the electrical transmission of coded messages over wires. |
| manifest destiny | The 19th-century belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory. |
| Treaty of Ft. Laramie | The treaty requiring the Sioux to live on a reservation along the Missouri River. |
| Sante Fe Trail | A route from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, used by traders in the early and mid-1800s. |
| Oregon Trail | A route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, used by pioneers traveling to the Oregon Territory. |
| Mormons | Members of a church founded by Joseph Smith and his associates in 1830. |
| land grant | A gift of public land to an individual or organization. |
| Texas Revolution | The 1836 rebellion in which Texas gained its independence from Mexico. |
| Alamo | A mission and fort in San Antonio, Texas, where Mexican forces massacred rebellious Texans in 1836. |
| Republic of Texas | The nation established in 1836 when American settlers in Mexican province of Texas declared and fought for their independence, also commonly known at that time as the “Lone Star Republic.” |
| annex | To incorporate a territory into an existing political unit, such as a state or a nation. |
| Republic of California | The nation proclaimed by American settlers in California when they declared their independence from Mexico in 1846. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | The 1848 treaty ending the U.S. war with Mexico, in which ceded California and New Mexico to the United States. |
| Gadsden Purchase | An 1853 purchase by the United States of land from Mexico, establishing the present U.S. - Mexico boundary. |
| forty-niners | One of the people who migrated to California in search of riches after gold was discovered there in 1848 |
| gold rush | A movement of many people to a region in which gold has been discovered. |
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