Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
15 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Profit |
The money a business earns after all its expenses are paid |
|
|
Mass Production |
To produce many things at once usually with machinery |
|
|
Industrain Revolution |
The period when there was a shift from goods ny hand at home to making them in a factory |
|
|
Canal |
A human made waterway |
|
|
Vaquero |
A Mexican cowboy |
|
|
Annex |
To take territory and join it to a state or country |
|
|
Missouri Compromise |
A law passed by congress in 1820 that allowed Maine to enter the union as a free state while Missouri entered the Union as a slave state |
|
|
Manifest Destiny |
The belief that the United States had a right to add territory until it reached the Pacific Ocean |
|
|
Wagon Train |
A line of wagons traveling as a group |
|
|
Prairie Schooner |
A covered wagon with large wheels used for transportation to the west |
|
|
Persecution |
Poor treatment of a person of a person or group based on their religion |
|
|
Gold Rush |
The quick movement of people to a placewhere gold has been discovered |
|
|
Entrepreneur |
Someone who takes a risk to start a buisness |
|
|
Discrimination |
Unfair treatment |
|
|
Pony Express |
Mail servece to California provided by riders on swift horses |
