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20 Cards in this Set
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Elie Whitney
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Cotton Gin(increased slavery)
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Robert Fulton
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Steam boat
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John Deere
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Steel plow
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Sameul Morse
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morse code/telegraph
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Elais Howe
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Sewing machine
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industral rev.
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changed the way of life for the people in the world and began in 1750 in Britain
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cumberland road
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linked the nation & was the only major highway constructed by the federal goverment
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common wealth vs. hunt
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ruled that labor unions werent illegal but were "honorable and peaceful"
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western moment
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lots of immigration going west
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clipper ships
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beautiful but short lived american ships, replaced by "tramp steamers"
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mechanical mower-reaper
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McCormicks invertion the vastly increased the produtivity of the american grain farmer
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erie canal
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"clintion's big ditch" transformed transportion and economic life across the great lakes region from buffalo to chicago
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woman and children
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a common soure of early factory labor, often uderpaid, whipped, and brutally beaten
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natvists/know-nothings
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americans who protest and sometimes rioted againat roman catholic immigrants
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half of the americans were under the age of____?
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30
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primary economic activity in the rockey mountain west
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fur trapping
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the american painterwho developed the idea for a nation park system was
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george catlin
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2 major sources of european immigration to america was
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germany and ireland
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one consequence of the influx of new immigrants
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an upsurge of anti- Catholicism
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industrialization was at first slow to arrive in america b/c
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shortage of labor, capital, and consumers
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