| politics | | all the people in a place |
| tariff | | a land in its wild, natural state |
| great plains | | people who worked to get the right to vote for women |
| revenge | | the first people who settle an area and get it ready for others |
| reconstruction | | This amendment ended slavery in 1865 |
| election | | the area on the edge of a settled region |
| territories | | things for sale |
| majority | | a group of lands or countries under one government |
| immigrants | | an 1850 law that made people return runaway slaves to their owners |
| fifteenth | | to take up more space |
| civil war | | the legal separation of people based on race |
| emancipation | | people who come to a new country to live |
| pioneers | | type of government where people get to vote on important things |
| foreign | | This amendment make all people born in the U.S. full citizens in 1868 |
| crisis | | reformer who worked to end slavery |
| underground railroad | | business that involves making, shipping, and selling goods made in factories |
| population | | the idea that the U.S. had the right to own and settle land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
| imported | | a system that helped slaves escape |
| industry | | move goods or people by a vehicle |
| empire | | rights of citizens |
| emigrate | | a region in the middle of the United States |
| civil rights | | taxes put on imports to raise the price people pay for them |
| abolitionist | | a time of great difficulty |
| unconstitutional | | the use of new knowledge to make new machines |
| democratic | | group of workers who join together to make business owners change things |
| Manifest Destiny | | a voting process, how we choose a president |
| union | | series of steps that Congress took to bring the Southern states back into the country |
| technology | | shows events in chronological order |
| suffragists | | ways of doing things, traditions |
| thirteenth | | way of life |
| expand | | the act of hurting people because they hurt you |
| compromise | | This amendment protected the right to vote for all male citizens in 1870 |
| bitterness | | the activities of government |
| frontier | | a change made to the Constitution |
| transport | | act of setting the slaves free |
| culture | | a deep, painful feeling of anger |
| goods | | to leave a country to live somewhere else |
| amendment | | against the constitution |
| customs | | a way of settling a disagreement by giving each side part of what they want |
| fugitive slave act | | war between parts of the same country |
| segregation | | from another country |
| fourteenth | | parts of the U.S. that are not states |
| timeline | | an amount greater than half |
| wilderness | | brought into the country for sale |
