| A | B |
|---|
| Indegenous | Orginating in a certain place |
| Missionary | A person who tries to convert others to his or her religion. |
| Indentured Servant | A Person who in exchange for benefits must work for a period of years to gain freedom. |
| Plantation | A large one crop farm, common in the southeastern US. |
| boycott | A refusal to buy or use goods and services. |
| Revolutionary War | War in which the American cononies won their independence from Britain. |
| Louisiana Purchase | The sale of land in 1803 by France to the US. |
| Manifest Destiny | Belief that the US had a right to own and rule all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. |
| Immigrant | A Person who moves to a new country in order to settle there. |
| Indrustrial Revolution | The change from making goods by hand to making them by machine. |
| Abolitionist | A person who believed that enslaving people was wrong and wanted to end slavery |
| Civil War | The war between the northern and southern states in the US which began in 1861 & ended in 1865. |
| Reconstruction | US plan for rebuilding the nation after the civil war. |
| Segregate | To set apart and force to use separate school, housing, parks, & so on because of race. |
| Labor Force | To supply of workers. |
| Settlement House | Community center for poor immigrants to the US. |
| Homestead Act | A law passed in 1862 giving 160 acres of land on the Midwestern Planins to any adult willing to live and farm it for 5 years. |
| Communism | A system of government in which the government controls the means of industrial production. |
| Cold War | A Period of great tension between the US and theformer Soviet Union, which lasted for more than 40 years after world war II. |
| Civil Rights Movement | A large group of people who worked together in the US beginning in the 1960's to end segregation of African Americans and support equal rights for all minorities. |
