Vocab

Question 1

Annex

Answer 1

To add onto, to join or merge a territory into a country or state

Question 2

Assimilate

Answer 2

To adopt her take on the traditions of the larger or surrounding group

Question 3

Blockade

Answer 3

To keep shipped from coming in or out of an area( usually a country)

Question 4

Canal

Answer 4

A man-made waterway

Question 5

Cede

Answer 5

To give up something , usually by force

Question 6

Conestoga

Answer 6

A covered wagon

Question 7

Depression

Answer 7

A period when business activity slows, prices and wages fall, and unemployment rises

Question 8

Frontier

Answer 8

The edge of settlement the changing line between wilderness and civilization

Question 9

Homespun

Answer 9

To be made by hand, the period of time and products or goods for made it home

Question 10

Impressment

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Industrial revolution

Answer 11

The change for making brings it home to making things in a factory

Question 12

Inflation

Answer 12

An increase in the price of goods and services by the value of money decreases

Question 13

Nationalism

Answer 13

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country

Question 14

Pioneer

Answer 14

And early settler of an area usually in the frontier

Question 15

Prospector

Answer 15

Someone who looks in an area for mineral deposits such as gold or silver

Question 16

Reservation

Answer 16

Land set aside by the United States government for Native American tribes to live on and use

Question 17

Rural

Answer 17

A country like area, farmland

Question 18

Self-sufficient

Answer 18

To provide for ones basic needs

Question 19

Toll

Answer 19

A fee or text that must be paid to use a road

Question 20

Transcontinental

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Turnpike

Answer 21

A road that people pay to use

Question 22

Urban

Answer 22

A city like area