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24 Cards in this Set
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daniel webster
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created the dictionary
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industrial revolution
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the making of new technology
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union
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areas
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urbanization
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population rise in urban life
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cyrpus mc cormick
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created the mexhanical reaper
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new cities
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buffalo clevland detriot chicage great lakes and st lois
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irish patatoe famine
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patatoes diminished and had few crops to produce which caused them to immiigrate to america
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germans
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both ecomonic hardship an\d the failure of democratic revoilutiion
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old nothwest
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consisted of 6 states on the staes
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immigrants
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people who moved from one country to another
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ameican party
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party with americans
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king cotton
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was a slogan used by southerners (1860–61) to support secession from the United States by arguing cotton exports would make an independent Confederacy economically prosperous, and—more important—would force Great Britain and France to support the Confederacy because their industrial economy depended on textiles derived from cotton.
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e;li whitney
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cotton gin
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denmanrk vasey nat turner
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led slavery uprisings
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slave codes
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were laws each US state, which defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters. These codes gave slave-owners absolute power over the African slaves.
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free african slaves
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free slaves
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planters poor whites
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owns no slaves poor low class
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mountain men
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farmetrs who live in the frontier isolated from the rest of the south
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the west
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beyond the mississippi river and reached as far as californa
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the froontier
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had many different cultures and ethnicity
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native americann removal
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whites pushed the native Americans west
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great plains
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are a broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, which lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains
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white settlers
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worked from sunset to sunrise died of manhy diseases
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enviromental damage
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europeans had littile to no understanding of the land being fragile and wildlife
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