| A | B |
| Louisiana Purchase | doubled the size of the U.S. |
| Lewis and Clark | explored the lands west of the Mississippi River |
| Indian Removal Act | required Native Americans to leave their homelands |
| Prairie Schooner | covered wagons |
| Manifest Destiny | own all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
| Immigrants | people who move from one country to another |
| Industrial Revolution | making goods using machines |
| Cotton Gin | a machine to remove the seeds from cotton |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | a novel about the evils of slavery |
| Fugitive Slave Act | anyone in the country must return slaves to their owners |
| Abolitionists | peopel who wanted to end slavery |
| Civil War | war between the north and south |
| Reconstruction | rebuilding the nation after the Civil War |
| Segregate | separate blacks and whites |
| Clara Barton | organized the delivery of supplies to men wounded in battle |
| The Underground Railroad | a series of routes that escaped slaves used to travel secretly to the North or to Canada |
| Native Americans | original people of North America |
| Angel of the Battlefield | a special name given to Clara Barton |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | published Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Confederate States | souther states that seceded from the U. S. |