| A | B |
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| Blockade | Used by British warships to prevent(stop) other ships from entering or leaving a harbor. |
| Lewis and Clark | Explored the Louisiana Territory. |
| Louisiana Purchase | Huge land area bought from France (Napoleon) that doubled the size of the United States. |
| Nationalism | Feeling of pride in your country. |
| Indian Removal Act | Law signed by Andrew Jackson to force the Cherokee and other tribes off their land and into Indian Territory. |
| Industrial Revolution | Made it possible to use machines instead of hand tools to make large quantities of goods. |
| Steam engine | Invented by Robert Fulton. |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | Invented the telegraph that could carry messages over long distances. |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the Cotton Gin which picked seeds from cotton cleaning it quickly. |
| Slaves | Were needed to operated the Cotton Gin. |
| Change | The Industrial Revolution brought this about with power-driven machines. |
| Monroe Doctrine | Plan by President James Monroe to stop Europe from colonizing the Westerm Hemisphere. |
| Tecumseh | A Shawnee Native American leader who fought to keep his land. |
| Assimilate | Another name for Native Americans had to changing their way of life. |
| Trail of Tears | Forced march of the Cherokees westward. Many died of diseases, hunger or cold. |
| Transportation | This contributed to the growth of the cities in America. |
| Interchangeable Parts | Machines could make thousands of these exactly alike. |
| Mass Production | Made it possible for factories to make things quickly and efficiently. |
| Textile Factories | Many women and children in the 1800's worked here. |
| The Battle of the Alamo | Lasted 13 days even though the defenders of the fort were outnumbered. |
| Annexed | Texas was added as a state of the United States in 1845. |
| Independence, Missouri | Where the Oregon Trail began. |
| The Forty-Niners | Miners who rushed to California in 1849 for gold. |
| Germany | Many immigrants in the late 1700s and early 1800s came from Ireland, England , Scotland and this country. Arriving by ships. |
| Territory | Land that is not yet a state. |
