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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 with machinery |
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Industrial Revolution |
The period when there was a shift from making goods by hand 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 State 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 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 |