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Specialization

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H

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Market revolution

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People bought and sold goods rather than making them for their own use

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Capitalism

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Economic system where private businesses and individuals control the means of production

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Entrepreneurs

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Investors who risked their own money in new industries

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What year did Charles Goodyear develop vulcanized rubber?

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1839

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Who patented the sewing machine in 1846?

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Elias Howe

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Some inventions made life more enjoyable. Other inventions fueled the economic revolution and transformed…

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Manufacturing, transportation and communication

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How many miles of telegraph wire crossed the country in what year?

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23,000 and 1854

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What Pennsylvanian made a 150 mile trip up the Hudson River in the Clermont?

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Robert Fulton

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Where did Robert Fulton travel to and from and for how long?

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New York City to Albany, New York

32 hours

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Ships could now go upstream because of…?

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Steam engines

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In 1816 how many miles of canals did America have?

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100

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What was the nations first major canal?

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The Erie Canal

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The heyday of canals lasted until what year and why?

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1860’s and the railroads

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By 1850, _______ miles of railroad track had been laid.

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10,000

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In 1818 the National Road reached from where to where?

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Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, Virginia

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By 1838 how far did the national road reach?

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Springfield, Illinois

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18
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The south exported what

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Cotton

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The west exported what

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Grain and livestock

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The east manufactured what

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Textiles and machinery

21
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When did the Erie Canal open?

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1825

22
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John Deere invented the first _____ in the year _____

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Steel plow, 1837

23
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What is the mechanical reaper?

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It permitted one farmer to do the work of five hired hands

24
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Who invented the mechanical reaper?

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Cyrus McCormick

25
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Who wrote in a Diery of her family’s five-month journey to Oregon in what year?

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Amelia Stewart knights and 1853

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Who dreamed that the United States would become an empire for liberty by expanding across the continent?

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Thomas Jefferson

27
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What does manifest destiny mean to many Americans

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To express their belief that the United States destiny was to expand to the Pacific ocean and into Mexican territory

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Why did most Americans move west

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For personal economic problems

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What was the greatest attraction to move to the west

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The abundance of land

30
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What did white settlers and western Illinois and eastern Iowa do in the early 1830s

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Place great pressure on the Native American people to move west of the Mississippi River

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Where did the Black Hawk war start and where did it spread to?

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Illinois and Wisconsin territory

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When did the Black Hawk war end

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August 1832

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How did the war end and what was the result

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Illinois militia member slaughtered more than 200 Sauk and Fox people
the Indian tribes were removed two areas west of the Mississippi

34
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What grounded neither the Native Americans or settlers dominate

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The middle ground

35
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What did the Treaty of Fort Laramie do in 1851

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Provide various Native American nations to control the central Plains, land east of the Rocky Mountains that stretched roughly from the Arkansas River North to Canada

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What did the Native Americans have to do in return for the Treaty of Fort Laramie

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To not attack settlers and to allow the construction of government forts and roads

37
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What was the busiest and most well known at avenues of trade

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Santa Fe Trail

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Where did the Santa Fe Trail lead to and from

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Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Why did travelers group together after the first 150 miles to Santa Fe

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They were feared of attacks by Kiowa and Comanche tribes

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In 1836 what did Marcus and Narcissa Whitman do in the Oregon territory

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They set up mission schools to convert Native Americans to Christianity and educate them

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Where did the Oregon Trail start and end

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Independence, Missouri to Portland, Oregon

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How many American settlers arrived in Oregon and more farming it’s green and fertile Valley

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50,000 Americans by 1844

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What are Mormons

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Religious community that would play a major role in the settling of the west

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What is polygamy

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Having more than one wife

45
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In 1844 who is Jailed for treason and is murdered by an anti-Mormon mob

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Joseph Smith

46
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Salt Lake City blossomed out of the land the Mormons called _____

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Deseret

47
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In 1846 what did great Britain and America peaceably agree on with the boundaries of Oregon territory

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To extend the main them boundary with Canada and West word from the Rocky Mountains to Puget Sound establishing the current US boundary

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Who made a 40 mile long telegraph between Baltimore and Washington D.C.?

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Samuel F. B. Morse

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