| A | B |
|---|
| agrarian | farming, agriculture |
| agricultural output | how a farm produces - HOW MUCH it sells |
| agricultural production | what a farm grows - what it does |
| agriculture | agrarian, farming |
| annex - annexed - annexation | to take over a country & make it part of your own - to add land to your country usually by force |
| Anti-Annexation | against taking over an area & adding it to your country |
| Appalachian Mountains | a natural barrier in the eastern part of the U.S. - people had to cross them to get to the Mississippi River Valley |
| artifacts | pieces of history, cups, knives, arrowheads, parts of the past |
| assimilate | to blend into |
| BYU | a university founded by Mormons in Utah |
| cede | to break away - independence |
| cheap money | inflation - there's a lot of it in circulation - the value of money isn't worth much |
| cholera | a disease that wiped out people in the - it comes from polluted water |
| circulation | something that gets a around - it moves |
| colony | a territory - land owned by a country |
| commerce | trade |
| conservation of natural resources | using water, wood, timber carefully - don't waste them |
| cultures | all the ways people live - in this case there are many people living different ways |
| dependence | you need someone |
| division of labor | people decide what types of jobs men & women do |
| drought | lack of water - usually no rain for a long time (sometimes months) |
| dry farms | plants you grow which don't require a lot of water - wheat in the Midwest |
| enact | to put into effect - to do - fto adopt |
| era | a period of time |
| finished goods | things you can use right from the start - wooden chairs (in the beginning you couldn't because it was just pieces of wood) |
| fortress | building with high walls - used by the military for protection |
| freight | trains that carry goods/manufactured products, or cars, or oil, logs, coal, |
| fruitful | productive - useful - it grows - it develops |
| Great Plains | large flat grassy areas in the Midwest: Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana |
| Great Salt Lake | a landlocked body of water in Utah - Mormons settled by it - |
| immigration | people moving into an area - usually leave their homeland and permanently move to another country |
| income tax | money you have to pay each to the Government based on how much you earn/make |
| independence | you don't need anyone - you can go it along - ruling yourselves |
| individualism | surviving on your own - being your own person - making it /surviving by your own capabilities |
| infant mortality rate | how many children don't live to Age 1 - figure given is usually out of 100 |
| interdependence | you need someone & they need you, Saudi Arabia needs military aircraft & the US needs oil |
| land speculators | people who buy land inorder to sell it later for a profit - to make money off of it |
| legacy | how you are remembered - what you are known after you have left - how you affected an area after you have left it |
| limitless | no end, no boundaries |
