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| Louisiana Purchase | The purchase in 1803 of French lands in North America that doubled the size of the United States. |
| territory | An area of land that has not yet become a state. |
| embargo | A government order that stops or slows trade with a particular nation. |
| internal improvement | The building of transpoatation and communications systems to help a country's economy. |
| Industrial Revolution | The period of great change in how people lived and made products, brought about by prower-driven machines. |
| Missouri Compromise | The 1820 ruling that admitted Missouri as a slave state. |
| corps | A group of people who act together. |
| interpreter | A person who helps two people or groups understand the languages and customs of each other. |
| assimilate | To become absorbed into another culture. |
| Trail of Tears | The removal of Cherokees from their homelands to what is now Oklahoma. |
| market | A place where a buyer meets a seller to purchase a product or service. |
