| A | B |
| prairie | flat grassland |
| prairie chicken | bird |
| buffalo | large mammal on the prairie |
| fur trappers | men who trapped animals and traded their fur |
| cartographer | a mapmaker |
| constitution | written plan for the government |
| governor | head of the state |
| abolitionist | person who fights for the end of slavery |
| frontier | a place where people have not settled |
| territory | an area of land; a region |
| state | a political and geographical part of a nation |