| A | B |
| Tepee | Raw hide tents used by the Plains Indians. |
| Travois | Sled used by Plains Indians, usually pulled by a dog. |
| Corral | Enclosure used by Plains Indians to contain live stock. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | First railroad streching from the East Coast to the West Coast. |
| Vaquero | Spanish word for Cowboy. |
| Sodbuster | Light-weight steel plow, or Plains farmer. |
| Exoduster | African-Americans who moved to Kansas in order to start a new life, free for prejustice. |
| Wholesale | Buying a large quantity of goods at a discounted price |
| Cooperative | Pooling money together in order to buy seed and supplies at a wholesale price. |
| Manifest Destiny | U.S. policy of gaining control of the entire continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. |