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15 Cards in this Set
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profit |
The money a business earns after ll its 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 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 Maine 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 group base 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 |
