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Chapter 11 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cloth or fabric | textile |
| parts made by a machine to be exactly the same size and shape | interchangeable parts |
| making many products at the same time | mass production |
| amount of goods and services produced by workers in a certain amount of time | productivity |
| a person who takes risks to start a business | entrepreneur |
| a wide spread shortage of food | famine |
| an action that makes something better | reform |
| controlling or cutting back on the drinking of alcohol | temperance |
| unfair treatment that abuses someone's rights | injustice |
| the act of joining two countries or pieces of land together | annexation |
| the belief that the U.S. should spread across the entire North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Coast | manifest destiny |
| where fighting takes place in a war | front |
| something that is given up | cession |
| a line of covered wagons that travel together | wagon train |
| a miner that went to California around 1849 | forty-niner |
| takes place when many people hurry to the same area to look for gold | gold rush |
| a town who's population grows quickly | boomtown |