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Expanding Markets and Moving West - Chapter 9 Flashcards

To understand the causes and consequences of western settlement and to summarize the events surrounding the independence of Texas and the War with Mexico.

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In farming, the raising of one or two crops for sale rather than a variety of foods for personal use

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Specialization

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Economic changes where people buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves

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Market Revolution

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Economic system in which individuals and businesses control the means of production

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Capitalism

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Business owner

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Entrepreneur

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Inventor of the telegraph

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Samuel F.B. Morse

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Device that sends messages by wires

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telegraph

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Inventor of the steel plow

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John Deere

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Inventor of the mechanical reaper

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Cyrus McCormick

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Belief that the United States would expand across the continent

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Manifest destiny

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Treaty that gave Native Americans control of the central plains

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Treaty of Fort Laramie

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Trail from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Santa Fe Trial

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Trail from Missouri to Oregon

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Oregon Trial

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Religious group that settled near present-day Salt Lake City

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Mormons

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Founder and leader of the Mormons

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Joseph Smith

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Leader of the Mormons who decided to move the group west to Utah

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Brigham Young

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Slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call fro U.S. annexation of the Oregon Territory

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“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”

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Leader of American colony in Texas

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Stephen F. Austin

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Gift of public land to an individual or organization

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Land grant

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Mexican president who fought Texans in the Texas Revolution

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Antonio López de Santa Anna

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Texas Revolution

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Texas’s war for Independence from Mexico

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Site of a key battle in the Texas Revolution

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First president of the Republic of Texas

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Sam Houston

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Independent nation that was created after Texans defeated Mexico in the Texas Revolution

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Republic of Texas

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To make part of, incorporate

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11th president

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James K. Polk

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American general in war with Mexico and 12th president

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Zachary Taylor

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American general in war with Mexico

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Stephen Kearny

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Nation declared by American settlers after defeating Mexicans

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Republic of California

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American general in war with Mexico

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Winfield Scott

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Treaty ending the War with Mexico

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Purchase of land from Mexico in 1853 that established the present U.S.-Mexico boundary

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Gadsden Purchase

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People who came to California in 1849 in search of gold

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Forty-niners

33
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Movement of people to a place in which gold has been discovered

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