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33 Cards in this Set
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*Sec1*Samuel F.B. Morse |
Inventor of the telegraph |
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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 themselves |
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Capitalism |
Economic system in which individuals and business control the means of production |
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Entrepreneur |
Business owner |
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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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*Sec2*Manifest destiny |
belief that gave united states would expand across the continent |
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Treaty of fort laramie |
treaty that gave american 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 mormons |
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Brigham young |
Leader of the mormons who decided to move the group west utah |
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Fifty-Four forty or flight |
Slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as call for U.S annexation of the oregon territory |
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*Sec4*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 deafeating mexicans |
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Winfiled Scott |
American general in war with mexico |
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Treaty of guadalupe hidalgo |
treaty ending in war with mexico |
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Gadsden purchase |
purchase of land from mexico in 1853 that established the present U.S - mexico boudary |
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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 to a place in which gold has been discovered |
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*Sec3* Stephen F. Austin |
leader of american colony in texas |
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Land Grant |
Gift of public land to an individual or organization |
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
Mexican president who fought Texans in the Texas |
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Texas Revolution |
Texas's war for independence from mexico |
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Alamo |
site of 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 revolution |
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Annex |
To make part of, incorporate |