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23 Cards in this Set
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Florida 1819 |
Spain gave Florida to the U.S over a treaty. |
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Texas 1845 |
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 expansion of the U.S and thought it was good for the country and the right of the company. |
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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 |
The first person to think of or make something. |
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Entrepreneur |
Someone who organizes resources to bring a new or better product or service to market. |
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Cotton Gin |
Increased the production of cotton thus increasing the need for slave labor. |
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Steamboat |
Provided faster RIVER transportation. |
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Steam Locomotive |
Provided faster LAND transportation. |
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Reaper |
Increased the productivity of the American farmer. |
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Abolitionist |
Men and women that worked to end slavery. |
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emancipation |
The freeing from bondage. |
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Suffrage |
Women's and African American's right to vote. |
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Underground Railroad |
A chain of safe houses for fleeing slaves. |
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Harriet Tubman |
led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom in Canada. |
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William Lloyd Garrison. |
Wrote the Liberator and worked for the immediate |
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Fredrick Douglass |
Wrote the North Star and worded 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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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Played a leadership role in the women's rights movement. |
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What where the basic rights women where deprived of ? |
1.Denied educational opportunities. 2.Denied equal opportunities in business. 3.Limited in rights to own property. |
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Why did abolitionists think slavery was wrong? |
1.Morally wrong 2.Cruel and inhumane 3.a violation to the principles of Democracy. 4.Denied the chance of voting. |
