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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 United States |
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Florida |
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 belief that the United States would spread from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
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Lewis and Clark Expedition |
Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase 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 god or service to market in hopes of earning profit |
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Cotton Gin |
Invented by Eli Whitney, Increased the production of cotton and increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton |
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Steamboat |
Was improved by the entrepreneur Robert Fulton, eventually provided faster river transportation connecting Southern plantations and farms to Northern industries and Western territories. |
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SteamLocomotive |
Provided faster land transportation |
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Reaper |
Inventors are Jo Anderson and Cyrus McCormick, McCormick was an entrepreneur who brought the reaper to market, it increased the productivity of American farms |
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Abolitionists |
Men and women who work to end slavery. |
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Emancipation |
The freeing from bondage |
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Suffrage |
The right to vote in an election |
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Underground Railroad |
A series of safe houses and hiding places for runaways that could escape |
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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 and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans |
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Frederick Douglass |
wrote the North Star and worked for right to better the lives of African Americans |
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Isabella Sojourner Truth |
former enslaved African American, was 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 movement
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What basic right are women deprived of? |
1.the right to vote
2.Denied educational opportunities 3.Limited rights in owning property |
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Why did abolitionists think slavery was wrong? |
1.Slavery was mora |
