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17 Cards in this Set
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Louisiana purchase |
Jefferson bought land from France witch doubled the size of the United States |
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Florida 1819 |
Spain gave Florida to the United States through a tready |
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Texas 1845 |
Texas was added to the United States after it became an independent state |
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Organ 1846 |
The Organ 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 apart of the United S |
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Manifest destiny |
The idea that expatiation was good for the country and was the right of the country |
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Lewis and Clark expedition |
in the Lewis and Clark expatiation, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored he Louisiana purchase and the Organ territory from the Mississippi river to the Pacific
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inventor |
The person who is first to think or make something |
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Entepreneur |
A person who organizes resources to bring a better good or service in hopes of earning profit |
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Cotton Gin |
The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whiney it increased the productin of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor cultivate and pick the cotton |
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Reaper |
Jo Anderson and Cyrus McCormick worked to invent the reaper McCormick was an entrepreneur who brought the reaper into market. the reaper increased the american farmer |
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Steam Boat |
The steamboat was improved by entrepreneur Robert Fulton it eventually provided faster river transportation connecting Southern plantations and farms to northern industries and Western territories |
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Steam Locomotive |
provided faster land transpiration |
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Abolitionist |
Men and women who would work to end slavery |
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Emancipation |
The freeing fro bondage |
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Suffrage |
The right to vote in an election |
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Underground Railroad |
A series of safe houses |
