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8 Cards in this Set
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"Kentucky bluegrass"
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European bluegrass that appeared after tall Kentucky cane was burned down; made ideal pasture for livestock; lured thousands more American homesteaders into Kentucky
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NINA
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"No Irish Need Apply"; written on signs commonly posted at factory gates; native workers did not like Irish because they felt like the Irish would take their jobs
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German Forty-Eighters
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Germans who fled to America in hopes of democracy after the collapse of the democratic revolutions in 1848; more than Irish immigrants; contributed the wagon, Kentucky rifle, Christmas tree
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Nativists
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feared that foreigners would outbreed, outvote, and overwhelm "natives"; antiforeignism; rallied for political action against foreignism (especially Catholicism); formed the "know-nothing party"; wanted restrictions on immigration; occasional mass violence
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Clermont
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1807; installed bu Robert Fulton; powerful steam engine in a vessel; "Fulton's Folly"; touched off steam boat craze; made 150 mile run in 32 hours; first famous steamboat
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Cyrus Field
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the greatest wire puller in history; stretched a cable under the deep North Atlantic water from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1858; bound together the US and the world
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Pony Express
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established in 1860; made to carry mail speediliy the 2000 miles from St. Joseph, Mississippi to Sacramento, California; riders were about 10 miles apart; could make the trip in 10 days
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Market Revolution
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transformed a substistence economy of scattered farms and tiny workshops into a national network of industry and commerce
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