| A | B |
|---|
| labor force | The supply of workers. |
| segregate | To set apart, due to race, religion, or gender. |
| Reconstruction | The plan to rebuild the country after the Civil War. |
| abolitionist | A person who believed that slaverywas wrong. |
| Industrial Revolution | The change in making goods by hand to making them by machine. |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that the United States had the right to rule all land from the Atlantic to Pacific. |
| Louisiana Purchase | Sale of land from France to the United States in 1803 that doubled the size of the country, |
| Revolutionary War | Thye war between England ang the 13 American Colonies. |
| boycott | To refuse to buy,or use goods and services. |
| plantation | A large estate,or farm. Usually producing only one crop. |
| indentured servant | A person who, in exchange for benefits, must work a number of years to gain freedom. |
| missionary | A person who tries to convert others to their religion. |
| indigenous | Descendents of the first people to settle in an area. |
| free trade | Trade with no tariffs or taxes on imported goods. |
| acid rain | Rain that has a high level of pollution, and can damage the environment. |
| tariff | A fee charged on imported goods. |
| fossil fuel | A nonrenewable resource formed over millions of years from plant and animal remains. |
| civil rights | A movement in the 1950's and 1960's to end segration of African Maericans. |
| cold war | The years from 1946 - 1986, where tensions between the United States and Soviet Union ran high. |
| Homestead Act | Law passed in 1862 that gave 160 acres of land to any adult willing to farm it for 5 years. |
