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24 Cards in this Set
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expand
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To increase in quantity or scope
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distant
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Not close in relationship
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cotton gin
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A machine that separates the seeds, hulls, and foreign material from cotton
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husking
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A gathering of farm families to husk corn
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preserves
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Fruit canned or made into jams or jellies or cooked whole or in large pieces with sugar so as to keep its shape
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bobbing(for apples)
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Grasping or making a grab with the teeth for apples
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sod house
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A house built of turfs laid in horizontal layers
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patent
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An official document conferring a right or privilege
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bondage
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Involuntary personal servitude
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lumberjack
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A logger; one who cuts tress for lumber or to clear land of trees in lumbering
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stagecoach
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A horse-drawn passenger and mail coach running on a regular schedule between established stops
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locomotive
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An engine that moves under its own power
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mule
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A machine for drawing or twisting fiber into yarn or thread and winding it onto spindles
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barge
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A broad flat bottomed boat used chiefly in harbors and on rivers and canals
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trestle
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A braced framework of timbers or steel for carrying a road or railroad over a depression
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temperance movement
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A movement which attempts to greatly reduce the amount of alcohol consumed or even prohibit its production and consumption entirely.
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interchangeable parts
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Permitting mutual substitution
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abolitionist
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A person who is in favor of aboloshing esp. slavery
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alcohol
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A colorless volatile flammable liquid that is the intoxicating agent in fermented and distrilled liquors
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panic
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A sudden widespread fright concerning financial affairs that induces hurried selling resulting in a sharp fall in prices
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lithography
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The process of printing from a plane surface on which the image to be printed is ink-receptive and the blank area ink-repellent
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suffrage
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The right of voting or a vote given in deciding a controverted question or in electing a person to office
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expansion
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The act or process of expanding.
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Manifest Destiny
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The idea widespread during the 1840's and 1850's that the U.S. was destined to extend its boundaries to the Pacific
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