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16 Cards in this Set
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Specialization |
In farming, the raising of one or two crops for sale rather than a variety of foods for personal use |
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Market Revolution
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Economic changes where people buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves
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Capitalism
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Economic system in which individuals and businesses control the means of production
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Entrepreneur
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Business owner
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Inventor of the telegraph
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Telegraph
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Device that sends messages by wires
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John Deere
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Inventor of the steel plow
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Cyrus McCormick
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Inventor of the mechanical reaper
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Manifest Destiny
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Belief that the United States would expand across the continent
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
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Treaty that gave Native Americans control of the central plains
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Santa Fe Trail
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Trail from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Oregon Trail
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Trail from Missouri to Oregon
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Mormons
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Religious group that settled near present-day Salt Lake City
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Joseph Smith
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Founder and leader of the Mormons
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Brigham Young
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Leader of the Mormons who decided to move the group west to Utah
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“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
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Slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call for U.S. annexation of the Oregon Territory
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