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15 Cards in this Set
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profit |
the money a business earns after all its expenses are paid |
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mass production |
to produce many things at once usually machinary |
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industrial revolution |
the period when there was a shift from making goods by hand at home to making them in a factory |
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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 main to enter the union as a free state while missouri entered the union as a slave state |
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manifest destiny |
the belief that the united states had a right to add territory until it reached the pacific ocean |
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wagon train |
a line of wagons traveling as a group |
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prairie schooner |
a covered wagon with large wheels used for transportation to the west |
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persecution |
poor treatment of a person or a group based on their religion |
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gold rush |
the quick movement of people to a place where gold has been discovered |
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entrepreneur |
someone who takes a risk to start a business |
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discrimination |
unfair treatment |
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pony express |
mail service to california provided by riders on swift horses |
