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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 |
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 of 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 Americans 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 |
