| A | B |
| Narrow manmade waterway | canal |
| boat elevator | lock |
| agreement between two countries | treaty |
| Western hunters and trappers | mountain men |
| U.S. army leader in Tex/Mex War | Sam Houston |
| Lost at San Jacinto | Santa Anna |
| Steamboat | Robert Fulton |
| Why go by water? | Faster and cheaper |
| Texas border dispute | War with Mexico |
| Good farmland in far NW | Oregon Fever |
| California 49ers | Gold Rush |
| Factories in the North | Growth of cities |
| problems need solving | new inventions |
| Cotton Gin & spinning mill | Factories in N. |
| Cotton Gin | More Slavery |
| New means of transportation | Whites move West |
| Mormons driven out of Nauvoo,Il. | Brigham Young starts Salt Lake City, UT |
| "Remember the Alamo!" | All Americans inside died |
| Mass production | make things faster/cheaper |
| Old Spanish Trail | Los Angeles |
| Santa Fe | Independence, Missouri |
| Oregon Trail | Columbia River |
| California Trail | San Francisco |
| pulled by mules | flatboat |
| Railroad | Peter Cooper |
| Eli Whitney | Cotton Gin |
| Francis Lowell | water run Factories/Mills in Mass. |
| Samuel Slater | brings spinning machine to America |
| Mass production | make lots of things very fast |