| A | B |
|---|
| market town | a place where you can buy and sell things |
| massacre | to kill a lot of people |
| mechanization | using machines to do work that used to be done by hand |
| median age | the average age - says something about the population of a country |
| middlemen | retailers - people who buy goods, i.e. milk, or sneakers from manufactures & sell them to people to wear |
| myth | a story about someone of thing - probably not true, but yet believable |
| national identity | what people believe that country stands for - justice, strong, lead the way |
| Native Americans | Cherokees, Sioux, Apache, Iroquois, ... people who lived in America - before the Pilgrims |
| Natives | people who have lived in an area for many years |
| nomadic / nomads | people who move around from place to place - often following animals, or sources of water |
| pass | a space between mountains - allows people to go through the mountains |
| plot | a piece of land - or a scheme ... you are going to do something - or the main idea of a story |
| plow | you make spaces in the earth so you can plant |
| possessions | things you own: clothes, pots & pans |
| prairie | flat, grassy land in the Midwest |
| Pro-Annexation | you want your country to take over an area & make it part of your own country |
| progressive income tax | you pay taxes(money) to the government based on how much you make - the more you make, the more you pay |
| protective tariff | a tax on imported goods - done so people will buy things made within your own country |
| Pullman Sleeping Cars | trains that have beds that you can sleep in as it travels through the night |
| ranchers | farmers who own cattle & graze them on the prairie |
| realm | area, space, land - usually you own it & control it |
| realm of business | the TYPE of business you own |
| reforms | changes - to try to change something for the better |
| Rio Grande | a river in Texas, that marks the border between the United States & Mexico |
| Rocky Mountains | a TALL natural barrier in the West: Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico |
| San Francisco | a large city in California - it became a center of trade in the 1800s because it borders the Pacific Ocean |
| secede | to break away |
| secularized | government separate from religion - no religious influence |
| secure | safe, to put it away, to make safe |
| commerce | trade |
