| A | B |
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| John Sevier | First governor of Tennessee |
| canal | a human-made waterway that connects bodies of water |
| gap | a low place between mountains |
| cession | something you give up |
| ford | cross rivers |
| nationalism | pride in your country |
| assimilate | take on the ways of other people |
| cotton gin | a machine that removed the seeds from cotton |
| Cumberland Gap | the best place to cross the Appalachian Mountains |
| Wilderness Trail | The road through the Cumberland Gap |
| Daniel Boone | widened the trail in the Cumberland Gap |
| Louisianna Purchase | 800,000 square miles of land bought from France for $15 million dollars |
| Zebulon Pike | Led an expedition to explore the southwestern part of the Louisianna Purchase |
| Kentucky | First state west of the Appalachians |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Leader of France who sold the Louisianna Purchase to the U.S. |
| Sacagawea | Helped the Lewis and Clark Expidition |
| pioneer | an early settler of an area |
| impressment | forcing American soldiers to work on British navy ships |
| dictator | a leader who has complete control of the government |
| annexed | added on to something else |
| manifest destiny | The idea that the US was meant to stretch from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans |
| gold-rush | sudden rush of people to an area where gold has been found |
| fourty-niners | people who arrived in 1949 for the gold-rush |
| lock | a section of water held by two gates |
| locomotives | railroad engines |
| Industrial Revolution | A change from making goods by hand to making them with machines |
| Interchangeable parts | parts that are exactly alike |
| Oregon Trail | a road that led from Independence, Missouri to the Oregon County |
| National Anthem | the official song of a country |
| Lewis and Clark | Led the expedition to explore the Lousianna Purchase |
