| A | B |
| having two official languages | bilingual |
| law giving land on the Midwestern plains to adults willing to farm it for five years | Homestead Act |
| originating in a certain place | indigenous |
| a refusal to buy goods or services | boycott |
| type of logging in which all the trees in an area are cut down | clear-cutting |
| a person who opposes slavery | abolitionist |
| unrestricted trade between nations | free trade |
| the fight for equal rights for all minorities | civil rights movement |
| a fee charged on imports | tariff |
| a person who has to work for a period of years to gain freedom | indentured servant |
| period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union | Cold War |
| the change from making goods by hand to making them by machine | Industrial Revolution |
| the plan after the Civil War for trying to rebuild the nation | Reconstruction |
| a community center for poor immigrants | settlement house |
| the belief that the United States should own all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans | Manifest Destiny |