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OCS AmHist1 Unit 6 Lesson 1 Vocab (Reform)

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Manifest DestinyThe idea that Americans had the right and duty to expand west
Louisiana PurchaseA land purchase from France that doubled the size of the United States and allowed the US to trade along the Mississippi River.
American DreamThe belief that every American can work hard to get what they want
industrialRelated to a manufacturing business
immigrantsForeigners who came to the United States to live and work
annexAdding territory of another state to a country
Mexican Cession LandLand given to the United States at the end of the war with Mexico in 1848
Gadsden Purchase of 1853A purchase named after James Gadsden in which the US pruchased more territory from Mexico that would eventurlly make up the southern part of Arizona and Mexico and established the US-Mexican border
agriculturalRelating to work or business of producing crops
productivityThe state of being able to create, particularly at a high quality an quick speed
reductionA decrease or a less amount, or the amount by which something decreases or goes down
immigrationThe process of foreigners coming to the United States to live and work
ventilationan opening that lets air in
NativismThe policy of favoring people born in America over immigrants to hire for jobs



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