Vocabulary List

Fill in the blank: A _______ is a human-made waterway.

• canal

• river

• lake

• stream

Fill in the blank: To _______ means to take territory and join it to a state or country.

• annex

• secede

• dismantle

• relinquish

Fill in the blank: _______ is poor treatment of a person or group based on their religion.

• discrimination

• tolerance

• acceptance

• equality

Fill in the blank: _______ is unfair treatment usually based on race.

• discrimination

• equality

• justice

• freedom

Fill in the blank: An _______ is someone who takes a risk to start a business.

• entrepreneur

• employee

• investor

• manager

Fill in the blank: The _______ was the quick movement of people to a place where gold has been discovered.

• Gold Rush

• Silver Rush

• Oil Boom

• Diamond Hunt

Fill in the blank: _______ is the belief that the United States had a right to add territory until it reached the Pacific Ocean.

• Manifest Destiny

• Isolationism

• Monroe Doctrine

• Federalism

Fill in the blank: The _______ was a law passed by Congress in 1820 that allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state while Missouri entered as a slave state.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

Fill in the blank: _______ is the period when there was a shift from making goods by hand at home to making them in a factory.

• Industrial Revolution

• Renaissance

• Middle Ages

• Information Age

Fill in the blank: _______ is to produce many things at once usually with machinery.

• mass production

• handcrafting

• customization

• individual creation