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22 Cards in this Set
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Louisiana Purchase |
Jefferson bought land from France, which doubled the size of the United States. |
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Florida 1819 |
Spain gave Florida to the United States through a treaty. |
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Texas 1845 |
Texas was added to the United states after it became an independent republic. |
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Oregon 1846 |
The Oregon Territory was divided by the United states and Great Britain. |
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California 1848 |
War with Mexico resulted in California and the southwest territory becoming part of the United States. |
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Manifest Destiny |
The idea that expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the country. |
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Lewis and Clark Expedition |
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Territory from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. |
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Inventor |
A person who is the first to think of or make something. |
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Entrepreneur |
A person who organizes resources to bring a new or better good or service to market in hopes of earning a profit. |
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Cotton Gin |
It increased the production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton. |
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Steamboat |
Provided faster river transportation that connected southern plantations and farms to northern industries and western territories. |
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Steam Locomotive |
Provided faster land transportation. |
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Reaper |
Increased the production of the American farmer. |
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Harriet Tubman |
Led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom along the Underground Railroad. |
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William LLoyd Garrison |
Wrote the Liberator newspaper and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans. |
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Frederick Douglass |
wrote the North Star newspaper and worked for rights for African Americans and women to better their lives |
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Isabella Sojourner Truth |
A former enslaved African American, was a nationally known advocate for equality and justice. |
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Susan B. Anthony |
An advocate to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all. |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Played a leadership role in the women's rights movement. |
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What basic rights were women deprived of? |
-Denied the right to vote -Denied educational opportunities, especially higher education -Denied equal opportunities in business |
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Why did abolitionist believe slavery was wrong? |
-Morally wrong -Cruel and inhumane -Violation of the principles of democracy -Believed that slavery was wrong |
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Abolitionist |
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