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Chapter 11 Vocabulary

Chapter 11 Vocabulary. textile. c loth or fabric. i nterchangeable parts. Parts made by a machine to be exactly the same size and shape. m ass production. Making many products at once. productivity. The amount of goods and services produced by workers in a certain amount of time.

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Chapter 11 Vocabulary

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  1. Chapter 11 Vocabulary

  2. textile cloth or fabric

  3. interchangeable parts Parts made by a machine to be exactly the same size and shape

  4. mass production Making many products at once.

  5. productivity The amount of goods and services produced by workers in a certain amount of time

  6. entrepreneur A person who takes risks to start a business

  7. famine A wide spread shortage of food

  8. reform An action that makes something better

  9. temperance Controlling or cutting back on the drinking of alcohol

  10. injustice Unfair treatment that abuses a person’s rights

  11. annexation The act of joining two countries or pieces of land together

  12. manifest destiny The belief that the United States should spread across the entire North American continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

  13. front Where the fighting takes place in a war

  14. cession Something that is given up

  15. wagon train A line of covered wagons that moved together

  16. forty-niner A miner that went to California in 1849

  17. gold rush A movement of many people hurrying to the same area looking for gold

  18. boomtown A town whose population booms, or grows very quickly

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