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6 Cards in this Set
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Abraham Lincoln
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-born in kentucky
-married Mary -built thriving law practice in springfeild and served in IL legislature and congress -became president through hard work |
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John Deer
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-1837 patented a strong, smooth steel plow that sliced through pariarie soil so cleanly that farmers called it the singing plow
-Deer's company became leading plow manufacture in midwest turing more than 10,000 plows a year by late 1850's |
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Cost of Federal Land
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-$1.25 an acre-(millions americans couldn't afford $50 for 40 acre farm so squatted on unclaimed federal land and they neither rented it or owned it
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Sammuel Morse
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-1844, persuasivley demonstrated the potential of his telegraph by transmitting a series of dots and dashes that instantly conveyed an electronic message along 40 miles of wires between Wishington and Baltimore
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Irish
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-Immigrants entered at the bottom of the free-labor ladder and had difficulty climbing up
-1.7 million Irish immagrants arrived between 1840-1860 -Potatoe blight struck Ireland in 1845 and returned repeatedly years following spreading famine through island, reason for lots immagrated -3 out of 4 immagrants worked as domestic servants or laborers |
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Germans
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- 3 out of four immagrants came from ireland or germany
-majorit of 1.4 million Germans who entered US during years were skilled tradesman -They left Germany to escape deteriorating economic conditions and to seize opportunities offered by expanding economy where skilled artisans had little difficulty finding work |
