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Lesson 1: How did the movement of people and ideas change in ?
Vocabulary Words:
1. communication: the way that people send and receive information
2. technology: the use of scientific knowledge to solve problems
3. telegraph: a machine that sends signals along wires using electricity
4. engineer: a person who designs structures such as roads, bridges, and machines
5. investor: a person who gives money to a company with the hope of making money later
Lesson 2: How did the Gold Rush change California's economy?
Vocabulary Words:
1. import: to bring something in from another country or area to sell
2. product: something that is made, grown, or taken from nature and sold
3. merchant: a person who buys and sells goods
4. diversity: many different types of people or things
5. discrimination: treating someone differently from someone else in an unfair way
6. export: to send something to another country or area to be sold
Lesson 3: How did different people coming to California affect our state?
Vocabulary Words:
1. squatter: a person who settles on land he or she does not own
2. strike: when workers refuse to do their job until their demands are met
3. exclusion: the act of keeping something or someone out
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Lesson 4: How have immigration and settlement helped California grow?
Vocabulary Words:
1. migrant worker: person who regularly moves from place to place to do a job
Lesson 5: What was California's role in the twentieth century?
Vocabulary Words:
1. stock market: the business of buying and selling shares of companies
2. depression: a period when there is little business activity and many people do not have jobs
3. drought: a long period of time without rain
4. inflation: when prices rise
5. ration: to allow people only a limited amount of something because there is not enough of it
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Lesson 6: What new industries came to California in the twentieth century?
Vocabulary Words:
1. aerospace: the science of flight
2. aqueduct: a pipe or other system that brings water from a distance
Lesson 7: How did California's water system develop?
Vocabulary Words:
1. reservoir: a place where water is collected and stored for use
2. delta: an area of land where a river separates into smaller rivers flowing into a body of water
3. bay: a part of a sea or lake that cuts into a coastline
4. renewable resource: a resource that can be replaced
5. nonrenewable resource: a resource that comes from the earth and cannot be replaced
Lesson 8: How did California's education system develop?
Vocabulary Words:
1. public: available for anyone to use
2. private: not owned by the government
3. trade school: a place where people learn how to do a job
4. college: a school where people study after high school
5. university: the highest level of school from which you can earn a degree
6. degree: a rank or title given to someone who has completed a program of study at a school
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Lesson 9: How have Californians made our state unique?
Vocabulary Words:
1. culture: the customs, arts, entertainment, and recreation of a group
2. actor: a person who performs in plays, movies, or television shows