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32 Cards in this Set
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Mountain Men
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men hired by eastern companies to trap animals for fur in the Rocky Mountains and other western regions of the US.
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Oregon Trail
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a 2,000 mile trail from western Missouri to the Oregon Territory
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Brigham Young
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American religious leader who headed the Mormon Church after the murder of Joseph Smith, he moved the community to Utah, leading thousands along what come to be known as the Mormon Trail to the main settlement at Salt Lake City
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
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Mexican general; president of Mexico. fought in Texas Revolution and seized the Alamo but was defeated and captured by Sam Houston at San Jacinto
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Texas Revolution
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Texans revolted to become independant of Mexico
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Battle at the Alamo
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batle at a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas
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Manifest Destiny
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a belief shared by many Americans in the mid 1800s that the US should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean
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Mexican Cession
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the land that Mexico was forced to hand over to the US in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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treaty officially ending war and forcing Mexico to turn over much of its northern territory to the US
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49ers
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gold seeking migrants to CA
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John Sutter
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American pioneer; built Sutter's Fort where gold was discovered leading to gold rush
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Foreign Miner's Tax
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a high monthly tax placed on all foreign miners
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Samuel Slater
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English industrialist who brought a design for a textile mill to America, he is considered the founder of the American cotton industry
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Eli Whitney
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American inventor whose cotton gin changed cotton harvesting procedures and enabled large increases in cotton production. he introduced the technology of mass production through the development of interchangable partsin gun making
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Interchangable Parts
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parts of a machine that are identical
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Lowell System
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based on waterpowered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms. The system included a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill
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Trade Unions
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groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
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Sarah Bagley
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American mill worker and union activist. She avocated the 10 hour workday for private industry. She was elected VP of the New England working men's association, became the first women to hold such high ranks in the American labor movement
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Tom Thumb
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a small but powerful locomotive that raced a horse, almost beat it, then broke down in the end
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Robert Fulton and the Clermont
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the first commercial steamboat, tested by
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Gibbon v. Ogden
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a case where the court reinforced the federal government's authority to regulate trade between states by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states.
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John Deere
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developed steel plow
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Samuel Morse
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developed telegraph to send messages all across country
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Cyrus McCormic
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invented the mechanical reaper and harvesting machine that quickly cut down wheat
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Cotton Gin
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a machine that removes seeds from short staple cotton
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Cotton belt
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the area of high cotton production
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Tredgar Iron Works
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in Richmond VA, one of the most productive iron works in the nation
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Plantations
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fields along with many buildings where work was done
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Yeomen
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owners of small farms
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Denmark Vesey
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brought to US as a slave; purchased his own freedom; planned large slave uprising in South Carolina and was tried and hanged along with 36 others accused of plotting the rebellion
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Nat Turner
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American slave leader claimed that divine inspiration had led him to end slavery system led to slavery revolt and was executed after trial
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Slave Codes
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laws passed in the colonies to control slaves
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