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15 Cards in this Set
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profit |
The money a business earns after all it expenses are paid |
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mass production |
to produce many things at once usually with machinery |
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industrial revolution |
the period when there was a shift |
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canal |
a human - made waterway |
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vaquero |
a mexican cowboy. |
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annex |
to take territory and join it to a state or country |
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missouri compromise |
a law passed by congress in 1820 that allowed maine to enter the union as a free state whilemissouri entered the unionas as a slave state |
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manifest destiny |
the belief that the united states had a right to add territory unil it reached the pacific ocean. |
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wagon train |
a line of wagons traveling as a group. |
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perairie schooner |
a covered wagon with large wheels used for transportation to the west. |
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persecution |
poor treatment of a person or group based on their religion. |
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gold rush |
the quick movement of people to a place where gold has bees discovered |
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entrepreneur |
someone who takes a risk to start a business |
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discrimination |
unfair |
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pony express |
mail service to california provided by riders on swift horses. |
