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25 Cards in this Set
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Louisiana Purchase |
- Thomas Jefferson bought land from France - Doubled the size of United States - Lewis and Clark Expedition - Mississippi River to Pacific Ocean |
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Florida 1819 |
- Spain gave it to US through treaty |
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Texas 1845 |
- Was added to US after becoming an independent republic |
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Oregon 1846 |
- This territory was divided by US and Great Britain |
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California 1848 |
- War with Mexico, this and the Southwest Territory became part of US |
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Manifest Destiny |
the expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the country |
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Lewis and Clark Expidition |
- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark - The Louisiana Purchase - Mississippi River to 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 |
- invented by Eli Whitney - increased production of cotton - increased need of slaves to plant and cultivate cotton |
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Steamboat |
- improved by entrepreneur, Robert Fulton - provided faster river transportation - connected Southern plantations to Northern industries and Western territories |
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Steam Locomotive |
- provided faster land transportation |
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Reaper |
- invented by Jo Anderson and Cyrus McCormick - increased productivity of American farmer |
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Abolitionist |
Men and women who work to end slavery.
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Emancipation |
The freeing from bonding.
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Suffrage |
The right to vote in an election. |
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Underground Railroad |
It was a series of safe houses and hiding places for runaways that led as far North as Canada, where escaped slaves would be free from recapture. |
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Harriet Tubman |
- led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom along Underground Railroad |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
- wrote the Liberator - worked for immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans |
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Frederick Douglass |
- wrote the North Star - worked for writes to better the lives of African Americans and women |
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Isabella (Sojourner) Truth |
- former enslaved African American - nationally known advocate for equality and justice |
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Susan B. Anthony |
- 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 to vote - denied educational opportunities - denied equal opportunities in business - limited in rights to own property |
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Why did abolitionists believe slavery was wrong? |
- morally wrong - cruel and inhumane - a violation of the principals of democracy |
