| A | B |
|---|
| telecommunications | communication by electronic means |
| grossnationalproduct | measure of the total value of all goods and services produced by a country in a year |
| freeenterprise | economic system based on capitalism that allows individuals to own, operate, and profit from their own businesses |
| ruggedindividualism | the willingness of individuals to stand alone and struggle long and hard to survive and prosper, relying on their own personal resources, opinions, and beliefs |
| SmauelMorse | invented the first telegraph |
| HenryFord | invented the assembly line |
| AlexanderGrahamBell | invented the first telephone |
| transcontinentalrailway | linked east and west of the United States- completed in 1969 |
| GeorgeWashingtonCarver | invented peanut butter |
| virginforests | only 5% of these remain |
| lumberindustry | popular in the south before the 1800s- began in New England |
| population | U.S. has the third largest in the world |
| coal | U.s. produces 1/5 of th worlds supply of this |
| communication | growth of the U.S. is based partly on this |
| interstate | builtin 1950 because of the popularity of cars |
