Social Studies Chapter 11

1. Vocabulary Social Studies Chapter 11

2. a person who starts his or her own business Lesson 1 entrepreneur • Cloth or fabric textile • How fast goods and services are produced by a person productivity • The making of goods in large quantities using interchangeable parts and an assembly line mass production • Identical parts that can replace each other interchangeable parts • To search for facts research

3. Something one person does to another that is wrong Lesson 2 injustice • A widespread shortage of food famine • The decision to drink a small amount of alcohol, or none at all temperance • To change for the better reform

4. Something that is given up, or surrendered, such as land Lesson 3 cession • The act of adding more territory to a country annexation • A place where fighting occurs in a war front • The belief that the United States could and should expand across the continent manifest destiny

5. A town offering many chances to make money and filled with people just arriving Lesson 4 boomtown • A line of covered wagons moving together across the country wagon train • the quick movement of people to California and other places following the discovery of gold gold rush • a person who went to look for gold in California in 1849 forty-niner