Glossary:

Abandon - to leave behind

Application - a form that is filled out to adopt a child

Adoption - to be legally taken into a new home to be raised

Caucasian - being of the white race

Century - a period of 100 years

Cultures- traditons and values shared by people living in a community

Emigration - the act of leaving ones home country to a native country

Experience - an observation of a person

Fatal - deadly

Freight - the composition that is paid to transport

Frontier - open land where no one is living

Homeless - a person having no home or place to stay

Immigration - to leave your country and travel to a different country

Orphanage - a building where orphans can live to be cared for

Placing Agent- an adult who takes care of the children on the orphan train

Reject - to discard, not accept