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32 Cards in this Set
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Specialization
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in farming the raising of one or two crops for sale rather than a variety
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Market revolution
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Economic changes where people buy and sell goods rather than make 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 |
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 american control of the central plains |
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Sante 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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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 the public land to an individual or organization |
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
Mexican president who fought texans in the texas revolution |
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Texas Revolution |
Texas war for 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 war with mexico |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
treaty ending the war with mexico |
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Gadsden 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 in which gold has been discovered |
