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33 Cards in this Set
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Specialization |
In farming, the rising of one or two crops for sale rather than a variety of foods for personal use. |
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Market Revolution |
Economic changes where people buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves. |
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Capitalism |
Economic system in which individuals and businesses control the means of production. |
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Entrepreneur |
Business owner |
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Samuel F.B. Morse |
Inventor of the telegraph |
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Telegraph |
Device that sends messages by wires |
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John Deere- |
Inventor the steel plow |
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Cyrus McCormick |
Inventor of the mechanical reaper. |
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Manifest Destiny |
Belief that the United States would expand across the continent. |
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Treaty of Fort Laramie |
Treaty that gave Native American control of the central plains |
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Santa Fe Trail |
Trail from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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Oregon Trail |
Trail from Missouri to Oregon |
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Mormons |
Religious group that settled near present-day Salt Lake City |
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Joseph Smith |
Founder and leader of the Mormons |
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Brigham Young |
Leader of the Mormons who decided to move the group west to Utah. |
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Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!’’ |
Slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call for U.S. annexation of the Oregon Territory. |
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Stephen F. Austin |
Leader of American colony in Texas |
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Land grant |
Gift of public land to an individual or organization |
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Antonio López de Santa Anna- |
Mexican president who fought Texans in the Texas Revolution |
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Texas Revolution |
Texas’s war for the Independence from Mexico |
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Alamo |
Site of a key battle in the Texas Revolution |
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Sam Houston |
First president of the Republic of Texas |
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Republic of Texas |
Independent nation that was created after Texans defeated Mexico in the Texas Revolution |
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Annex |
To make part of, incorporate. |
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James K. Polk |
11th President |
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Zachary Taylor |
American general in war with Mexico and 12th president |
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Stephen Kearny |
American general in war with Mexico |
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Republic of California |
Nation declared by American settlers after defeating Mexicans |
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Winfield Scott |
American general in the war with Mexico |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
Treaty ending War with Mexico |
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Gadsden Purchase |
Purchase of land from Mexico in 1853 that established the present U.S.-Mexico boundary. |
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Forty-niners |
People who came to California in 1849 in search of gold |
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Gold rush |
Movement of people to a place in which gold has been discovered. |
