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41 Cards in this Set
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Jedidiah Smith
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1799-1831
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Jim Bridger
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1804-1881
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Daniel Boone
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1724-1820
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Zebulon Pike
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1779-1813
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Stephan Watts Kearny ( ____) captures New Mexico for the United States (____) and modern-day California (____)
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1794-1848
1846 1847 |
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Irish Potato Famine bring many to America
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1847-1854
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Erie Canal built
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1817-1825
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Depression in US motivates people to emigrate west
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1837
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Large groups go west on the Orgeon Trail
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1843
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First Wagon train makes it to California
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1844
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3,00 emigrants go to Oregon and California
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1845
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Joseph Smith (____) founds LDS church (____)
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1805-1844
1830 |
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Brigham Young (___) leads Mormons to Utah (___)
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1801-1877
1845-47 |
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55,000 people emigrate to the west, most to California
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1849
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The concept of Manifest Destiny first expressed
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1845
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Richard Henry Dana (____) publishes Two Years Before the Mast (____), inspiring intest in California
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1815-1882
1840 |
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California Indian population down to 150,000
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1849
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Mexico gains independence from Spain
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1821
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President Polk offers to purchase California (including Texas) from Mexico
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1845
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Stephan Austin (____) leads Missouri emigrants to Mexican Texas (____)
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1793-1836
1821-22 |
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Antonio Lopex de Santa Anna
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1794-1876
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Davy Crockett
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1786-1836
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Jim Bowie
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1796?-1836
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Sam Housten
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1793-1863
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Mexican-American War
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1846-48
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Henry David Thoreau
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1817-1862
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Walt Whitman
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1819-1892
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Henry Clay
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1777-1852
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California gains statehood
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1850
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Levi Strauss (____) arives in California (____) and begins making heavy plants from canvas for miners
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1829-1902-----------------------1853
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Pony Express
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1860-61
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Samuel F.B. Morse (____) granted a patent for the telegraph (____), sends the first telegraphic message (____)
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1791-1872
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Charles Babbage
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1791-1871
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Andre Amphere
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1775-1836
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First transatlantic telegraph cable completed but lasts only 3 weeks
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1858
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Nathaniel Bowditch (____) transforms navigation with his New American Practical Navigator (____) and a new simplified system of measurmeny on a ship's position
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1773-1883
1802 |
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Nakahama Manjiro (____) is shipwrecked (____) comes to the United States and eventually returns to Japan (____) where he is able to help Commodore Perry negotiate with the Japanese Government (____)
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1827-??
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Commodore Matthew Perry (____) negotiates treaty with Japan (____)
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1794-1858
1854 |
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John Deere (____) invents first steel plow for use in American prairies (____)
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1804-1886
1837 |
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Cyrus McCormick (____) patents reaper (____) and makes it available for sale (____)
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1809-1884
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Chapter 17-18 questions
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