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Chapter 11 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| textile | Cloth or fabric. |
| interchangeable | Parts made by a machine to be exactly the same size and shape. |
| mass production | 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. |
| famine | A widespread shortage of food. |
| annexation | The act of joining two countries or pieces of land together. |
| injustice | Unfair treatment that abuses a person's rights. |
| temperance | Controlling or cutting back on the drinking of alcohol. |
| reform | An action that makes something better. |
| wagon train | A line of covered wagons that moved together. |
| cession | Something that is given up. |
| front | Where the fighting takes place in a war. |
| manifest destiny | The belief that the United States should spread across the entire North American continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| forty-niner | A miner who went to California in 1849. |
| gold rush | A movement of many people hurrying to the same area to look for gold. |
| boomtown | A town whose population booms, or grows very quickly. |