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20 Cards in this Set
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Specialization
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Raising one or two crops that would be sold at home or abroad
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Capitalism
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Economic system in which private businesses and individual control means of production and use them to earn profit
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Entrepreneur
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Businessmen who invested their own money in new industries.
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Samuel f. B. Morse
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A New England artist who invented the telegraph and code language
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Telegraph
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Machine that send coded messages of a metal wire.
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Manifest Destiny
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American belief that United States' destiny was to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into the Mexican Territory.
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Oregon Trail
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Wagon trail that started in Independence, Missouri and ended in Portland, Oregon.
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Mormons
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A religious community that played a major role in the settling of the West
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Joseph Smith
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Religious prophet who founded the Mormon religion. Murdered in Illinois
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Brigham Young
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New Leader of Mormon church after Smith, who had Mormons settle in Utah
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Stephen F. Austin
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Established a colony in Texas between the Brazos and Colorado Rivers
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
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President of Mexico who suspended the Mexican constitution
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Texas Revolution
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Rebellions in Texas and Mexico that occurred after the suspension of the Mexican constitution.
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Alamo
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Franciscan mission and fort; site of a 12 day battle between Texans and Mexicans. Davy Crockett was killed there.
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Sam Houston
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Commander and Chief of Texans at the Alamo; founder of Texas. President of Republic of Texas.
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James K. Polk
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United States President who supported Texas during the Texas/Mexico border dispute.
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Zachary Taylor
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General under Polk who marked to Rio Grande and blocked river from Mexicans. Future President of the United States.
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Stephen Kearny
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Colonel who marched from Kansas to New Mexico to seize New Mexico and California territories for the United States
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Bear Flag Republic
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Area of California settled by Mexicans and declared an independent republic
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Treaty signed by US and Mexico that established the Rio Grande border for Texas and ceded New Mexico and CA to the United States.
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