social studies vocab Word Scramble
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Boom | A time of fast economic growth |
Refinery | A factory where metals, fuels, and other materials are cleaned and made into usable products. |
Prospecter | Those searching for gold, silver and other materials |
Bust | A time of fast economic decline |
Long Drive | A trip made by ranchers to lead cattle to market or to the railroads |
Homesteader | Person living on land granted by the government |
Open Range | Land on which animals can graze freely |
Reservation | An area of land set aside by the government for use only by Native Americans |
Free Enterprise | economic and political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market through the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental intervention and regulation |
Transcontinental Railroad | a railroad that goes across North America |
Entrepreneur | person who organizes a business |
Petroleum | oily liquid found underground |
Capital | money available for business use |
Human Resource | a person who has great knowledge about something |
New Immigration | immigrants from southern and western Europe and the rest of the world |
Old Immigration | immigrants from eastern and northern Europe |
Advertisement | something that pursuades people to do something or buy something |
Tenement | a beat up old apartment |
Prejudice | people being treated bad because of their race or religion |
Regulation | a rule |
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