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25 Cards in this Set
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Louisiana purchase |
Thomas Jefferson bought the land for 15 million dollars which doubled the sizes of the US |
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Florida 1819 |
Acquired Florida from Spain because Spain was tired of the fighting along he southern frontiers |
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Texas 1845 |
Broke away from Mexico and became an independent state |
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Oregon 1846 |
Was divided between Great Britain and the US |
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California 1848 |
The win against Mexico made California a U.S possession |
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Manifest Destiny |
That the nation should stretch from sea to sea |
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Lewis and Clark expedition |
The explored the lands of the Louisiana Purchase from the Mississippi River to the Rockies and then all the was to the Pacific ocean |
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Inventor |
The first person to think of or make something |
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Entrepreneur |
Someone who organizes resources to bring to a new or better product or service to the market, hoping to make profit |
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Cotton Gin |
Invented by Eli Whitney it helped get all the seeds out of the cotton and spend up cotton production |
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Steamboat |
The entrepreneur was Robert Fulton this machine was powered by wind or oars it made traveling easier in water |
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Steam locomotive |
It was a easier was to travel on land and was powered by coal oils etc. |
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Reaper |
Two inventors Robert McCormick, and Jo Anderson (slave) it helped to cut down grains faster using horses |
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Abolitionists |
Men and women who work to end slavery |
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Emancipation |
The freeing from bonage |
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Suffrage |
The right to vote in an election |
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Underground Railroad |
series of safe houses and hiding places for runaways |
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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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Fredrick Douglass |
wrote the North Star and worked for rights to better the lives of African Americans and women |
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Isabella Sojourner Truth |
A 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 women's rights in movement |
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What basic rights were woman deprived of? |
1. Denied the right to vote 2. Denied equal educational opportunities 3. Limited in rights to own property |
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Why did abolitionist think slaver was wrong? |
1. Inhumane 2. Morally wrong 3. Cruel4. Violation of the principals of democracy
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