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24 Cards in this Set
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A place owned and governed by a country.
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Territory
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A huge movement of people trying to find gold.
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A Gold Rush
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a person who went to California in 1849 to search for gold.
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A forty-niner.
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a point of land that reaches out into the ocean.
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A cape
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A fast sailing ship
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A clipper ship.
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A narrow piece of land that connects to larger land areas.
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An isthmus.
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A low, wet area, usually covered by shallow water.
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A swamp.
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An area a miner said belonged to him or her.
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A claim.
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All the business that one kind of product or provide one kind of service.
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Is an Industry.
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A person whoo sets up a new business.
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An entrepreneur.
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A kind of economy in which people can own and run their own business.
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Free enterprise.
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People who buy a product or a service.
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A consumer.
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A number of people who live in a place.
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A population.
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A person who takes the law into his or her own hands.
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A vigilante
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The unfair treatment of people because of such things as their religion,race,or their birthplace.
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Discrimination.
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The way people use new ideas to make tools or machines.
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Technology.
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A important meeting.
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Convention.
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People who represent or speak and act for all the Califorians that elcted them.
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Delegates.
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a plan of government.
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Constition.
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is the making of some people the property of other peole.
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Slavery.
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A stae which slavery is outlawed
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Free states.
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A place which slavery was legal.
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Slave staes.
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Each side of a conflict gives up what they want in order to reach an agreement.
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In a compromise.
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A group of peoplechosen to make a decisionto make a certain problem
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A comission.
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