Sunday, October 28, 2007

America Vocabulary

America Grows Up, 1850-1914, Vocabulary

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Period:

1. Centennial Exhibition
2. refining
3. Alexander Graham Bell
4. Thomas Alva Edison
5. republic
6. agrarian
7. craftsmen
8. homespun
9. looms (factory)
10. treadmill
11. Sam Slater
12. Eli Whitney
13. interchangeable parts
14. mass production
15. cash crop
16. dormitories
17. strike
18. turnpike
19. Conestoga
20. Erie Canal
21. Dewitt Clinton
22. Cyrus McCormick
23. transcontinental
24. Promitory Point
25. lard
26. processing
27. Longhorn
28. Chisholm Trail
29. refrigerator
30. Dakotas
31. millers
32. Iron Horse
33. Henry Bessemer
34. Andrew Carnegie
35. ferment
36. George Westinghouse
37. elevated
38. John D. Rockefeller
39. Cornelius Vanderbilt
40. J.P. Morgan
41. monopoly
42. prosperity
43. U.S. Maine
44. agriculture
45. Western Hemisphere
46. whalers
47. clipper ships
48. Yankee
49. expansion
50. export
51. spheres of influence
52. manifest destiny
53. Alfred Thayer Mahan
54. imperialism
55. Queen Lydia Liliuokalani
56. collaborators
57. William Randolf Hearst
58. Joseph Pulitzer
59. intervention
60. Philippines
61. cedes
62. Open Door Policy
63. John Hay
64. guerilla war
65. Platt Amendment
66. Guantanamo Bay
67. Roosevelt Corollary
68. The Great White Fleet
69. armada