Westward Expansion

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Louisiana Purchase

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Thomas Jefferson bought land from France which doubled the size of the United States

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Florida 1819

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Spain gave Florida to the United States through a treaty.

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Texas 1845

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Texas was added after it became an independent republic

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Oregon 1846

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The Oregon Territory was divided by the United States and Great Britain.

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California 1848

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War with Mexico resulted in California and the southwest territory becoming part of the United States.

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Manifest Destiny

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The expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the country.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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In the Lewis and Clark expedition, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

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Inventor

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A person first to think or make something.

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Entrepreneur

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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

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Invented by Eli Whitney. It increased the production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick cotton.

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Steamboat

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Was improved by an entrepreneur named Robert Fulton. It eventually provided faster river transportation that connected the southern plantations and farms to industries and Western territories.

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Steam Locomotive

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Provided faster land transportation.

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Reaper

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Invented by Jo Anderson and Cyrus McCormick. McCormick was an entrepreneur who bought the reaper to market. It increased the productivity of the American farmer.

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Abolitionists

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Men and women who work to end slavery.

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Emancipation

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The freeing from bondage.

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Suffrage

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The right to vote in an election.

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Underground Railroad

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It was a series of safe houses and hiding places for runaways that led north as far as Canada, where escaped slaves would be free from recapture.

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Harriet Tubman

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Led hundreds of enslave African Americans to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Wrote the Liberator and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans.

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Frederick Douglass

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Wrote the North Star and worded for rights to better the lives of Africa Americans and women.

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Isabella Sojourner Truth

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A former enslaved African American, was nationally known advocate for equality and justice.

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Susan B. Anthony

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Was an advocate to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Played a leadership role in the women's rights movement.

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What basic rights were women deprived of?

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Denied the right to vote.

Denied