| A | B |
|---|
| Started Industrial Revolution | British textile industry |
| Industrial Revolution | changes in manufacturing & transportation |
| Cotton gin | cleaned seeds from cotton boll |
| interchangeable parts | same size & shape parts made by machine |
| mass production | making many products at once |
| productivity | amount of goods & services produced |
| entrpreneur | takes risks to start a new business |
| Lowell factory | took raw cotton to finished cloth |
| reaper | harvests wheat |
| steel plow | could plow thick soil of the plains |
| National Road | connected Maryland & Ohio |
| roads, steamboats, canals & locomotives | improved travel & shipping goods |
| Germany & Ireland | largest groups of immigrants |
| Potato famine | caused Irish to immigrate |
| land & jobs | why immigrants came |
| Second Great Awakening | religious movement of 1820's |
| reform | action that makes something better |
| temperance | controlling drinking alcoholic beverages |
| injustice | unfair treatment that abuse's rights |
| Seneca Falls Convention | women's rights meeting |
| Tejanos | Mexicans living in Texas |
| 1821 | Mexico independent from Spain |
| The Alamo | mission site of Texans' defeat |
| Mexican laws & differences over slavery | caused Texas Revolution |
| Remember the Alamo | shouted at Battle of San Jacinto |
| capture of Santa Anna at San Jacinto | obtained Texas independence |
| annexation | joining of pieces of land |
| manifest destiny | belief that USA should expand Atlantic to Pacific |
| Rio Grande vs. Nueces | border dispute causes Mexican-American War |
| front | place where fighting occurs in a war |
| capture of Mexico City | leads to Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| Lone Star State | Texas |
| Mexican Cession | $15 million for all of southwest |
| Lone Star Republic | lasted 9 years, 1836-1845 |
| Oregon Trail | Missouri to Pacific |
| wagon train | line of covered wagons traveling together |
| 49th Parallel | border with Canada |
| Oregon Territory 1848 | acquired by Treaty with Britain |
| Mormons | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
| Utah | founded by Mormons |
| California Trail | split off of Oregon Trail |
| Californios | Mexicans living in California |
| Gold Rush | California 1848 |
| Forty-niners | miners who went to California |
| boomtown | town that grows very quickly |
| USA, China, Europe, Mexico, S. America | citizens rushed to California to get rich |
| American Indians | mistreated in Texas & California |
| Erie Canal | connected Albany with Lake Erie |
| textile | cloth or fabric |
