Vocab Flashcards
Annex
To add onto, to join or merge a territory into a country or state
Assimilate
To adopt her take on the traditions of the larger or surrounding group
Blockade
To keep shipped from coming in or out of an area( usually a country)
Canal
A man-made waterway
Cede
To give up something , usually by force
Conestoga
A covered wagon
Depression
A period when business activity slows, prices and wages fall, and unemployment rises
Frontier
The edge of settlement the changing line between wilderness and civilization
Homespun
To be made by hand, the period of time and products or goods for made it home
Impressment
British practice of taking American sailors from American ships and forcing them to serve in the British Navy, a factor of the war of 1812
Industrial revolution
The change for making brings it home to making things in a factory
Inflation
An increase in the price of goods and services by the value of money decreases
Nationalism
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country
Pioneer
And early settler of an area usually in the frontier
Prospector
Someone who looks in an area for mineral deposits such as gold or silver
Reservation
Land set aside by the United States government for Native American tribes to live on and use
Rural
A country like area, farmland
Self-sufficient
To provide for ones basic needs
Toll
A fee or text that must be paid to use a road
Transcontinental
When the United States stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, also the intention of the United States to be built a real Road connecting the west and east coast of the continental United States
Turnpike
A road that people pay to use
Urban
A city like area
