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31 Cards in this Set
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specialization
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raising one or two cash crops
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capitalism
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the economic system in which private businesses and individuals control the means of production and use them to earn profits
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entrepreneurs
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risk their own money in new industry
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Charles Goodyear
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Vulcanized rubber in 1839
didn't freeze or melt used to protect boots |
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Elias Howe
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1846 sewing machine
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I.M. Singer
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foot threadle
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Samuel F. B. Morse
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created the telegraph 1837
10 miles |
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Robert Fulton
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Steamboat era
Clermont 150mile trip up Hudson River NYC to Albany in 32 hours |
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Erie Cannal
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First cannal 1817
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John Deere
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1837 Steal Plow
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Cyrus McCormick
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Mechanical reaper work of 5 hands
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Lousiana Purchase
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1803 Doubled the size made by Jefferson
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Manifest destiny
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expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory
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panic of 1837
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Convinced many people that they would be better off attempting a fresh start in the West.
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Black Hawk War
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Started in Illinois and spread to Wisconsin
Ended in August 1832 Foz and Sauk tribes forced to move west of Mississippi |
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
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1851 provided various nations to control Central Plains
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Oregon Trail
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Independence Missouri to Portland Oregan
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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
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Methodist Missionaries, oregon trail to Wilamette Valley
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Mormans
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founder Joseph Smith Layfette, New York 1827
Brigham Young moved them to Salt Lake |
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empresarios
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Land grant agents
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Stephen F. Austin
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empresario, est. colony
Old Three Hundred 177 acres of land |
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G.T.T
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Gone to Texas
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Santa Anna
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served as president
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Alamo
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abandoned mission and fort
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sam Houston
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Defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto
President of Republic of Texas |
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Republic of California
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Sonoma June 1846 grizzly bear
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Feb 2, 1848 Rio Grande Boarder of for texas.
15 mil California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Ariz. Colorado, Wyoming Mex. religion, property, bilingual elections, open boarders |
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Gadsden Purchase
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Current boarders of u.s.
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James Marshall
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January 1848 Sutter's Mill California Sierra Nevadas discovered gold
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forty-niners
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prospectors who flocked to Calforina in 1849
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Santa Fe Trail
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Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
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