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25 Cards in this Set
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Louisiana Purchase |
Jefferson bought land from France which doubled the size of the U.S |
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Florida 1819 |
Spain gave ________ to the U.S through a treaty |
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Texas 1845 |
Added to the U.S after it became an independent republic |
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Oregon 1846 |
Divided by the U.S and Great Britain |
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California 1848 |
War with Mexico resulted in California and the southwest territory becoming part of the U.S |
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Manifest Destiny |
A doctrine or belief that the expansion of the U.S and the American continents was both justified |
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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 new or better goods and services to market in hopes of earning a profit |
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Cotton Gin |
Invented by Eli Whitney, It increased the production of cotton and the need for slave labor |
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Steamboat |
Improved by the entrepreneur, Robert Fulton, It eventually 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 |
Jo Anderson {a slave} and Cyrus McCormick worked to invent this invention, McCormick was the entrepreneur brought it to market, this invention increased the production of the American farmer |
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Abolitionists |
Men and women who work to end slavery |
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Emancipation |
The feeling from bondage |
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Suffrage |
The right to vote in an election |
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Underground Railroad |
A passage that slaves used to travel without being seen or cought |
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Harriet Tubman |
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 American 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 |
Was 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 movment |
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What basic rights were women deprived of ? |
-to vote -educational opportunities -equal opportunities in business -right to own property |
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Why did abolitionists believe slavery was wrong ? |
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