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