| Term | Definition |
| Civil War | The war between the North and the South |
| African Americans | Were freed from slavery by the Civil War |
| Migration | The movement of people or animals from one place to another |
| Oath | A serious promise made in public |
| Port | A place where ships load and unload their goods |
| Harbor | an example of a port |
| Prairie | Flat or rolling land covered with tall grasses |
| Pioneer | A person who is among the first to explore an area not known to them |
| Diary | A written record of what someone has seen, done, or thought |
| Classifying | The grouping together of similar things |
| Immigrant | Someone who comes from one country or place to live in another |
| Oral History | Recorded interviews with people who can tell firsthand what life was like in the past |
| Great Migration | The journey of thousands of African Americans from the South to build new lives in the cities of the North. |
| The Civil War was fought by the ________ and the South | North |
| African Americans were freed from ________ by the Civil War | slavery |
| Migration is the ____________ of people or animals from place to place | movement |
| An oath is a serious ____________ made in public | promise |
| A port is a place where ships load and unload their ________. | goods |
| Prairies, flat or rolling land, are covered with | tall grasses |
| A pioneer is a person who is among the first to _________ an area not known to them | explore |
| A diary is a ________________ of what someone has seen, done, or thought | written record |
| To classify is to group together __________ things | similar |
| An immigrant moves from one country or place to | another |
| Oral history is ____________ interviews with people who can tell firsthand what life was like in the past | recorded |
| In the Great Migration, thousands of African Americans moved from South to the North to ___________________. | build new lives |