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Chapter 9
Expanding Markets & Moving West
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History
10th Grade
05/12/2010

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Samuel F.B. Morse
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with Leonard Gale, built an electromagnetic telegraph
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"What hath God wrought?"
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code that Morse tapped out
on the 40mile telegraph line from Baltimore to DC
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specialization
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raising 1 or 2 crops cash crops that they could sell at home or abroad
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market revolution
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people bought & sold goods rather than making them for their own use
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as goods & services multiplies, what happened to the incomes?
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they rose
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capitalism
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economic system in which private biz & individuals control the means of production & use them to earn profit
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entrepreneurs
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investors who risked their own money in new industries
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who developed vulcanized rubber?
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Charles Goodyear
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who invented the sewing machine?
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Elias Howe
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who added the foot treadle?
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I.M. Singer
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what happened to the price of manufactured items as technology grew?
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price dropped
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telegraph
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invented by Samuel F.B. Morse -- carried messages tapped in code across copper wire
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who ushered the steamboat era?
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Robert Fulton
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the nation's first canal
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The Erie Canal
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where did the National Road stretch from?
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MD to IL
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which city became the center link b/w American agriculture & European markets?
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NYC
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who invented the steel plow
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John Deere
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who invented the mechanical reaper?
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Cyrus McCormick
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who dreamed that America would become an "empire for liberty"?
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Thomas Jefferson
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how much bigger did the Louisiana Purchase make America?
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doubled it
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manifest destiny
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belief that US's destiny was to expand to the Pacific Ocean & into Mexican territory
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what did the Oregon Territory help do?
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expand trade w/ China & Japan & also served as a naval station for Pacific fleet
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who pressured the natives in the early 1830s to move west of the MISS river?
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white settlers in west IL & east IO
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where was the middle ground?
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well west of the mississippi
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
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provided natives w/ land, in turn for them to not attack the white settlers
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Santa Fe Trail
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780 miles from Independence, MO to Santa Fe, NM
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what did the Santa Fe traders establish?
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the 1st visible American presence in NM & in Arizona
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Oregon Trail
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started in Independence, MO & ended in Portland, OR [in the Willamette Valley]
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Mormons
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religious group led by Joseph Smith to the west
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Joseph Smith
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estabished the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints in Fayette, NY
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where did the mormons settle
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Nauvoo, IL
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Brigham Young
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Smith's successor who decided to move his settlers beyond the boundaries of the US
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what's the significance of Salt Lake City
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heavy populated by mormons
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Deseret
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mormon's nickname for Salt Lake City
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who had joint occupations over the Oregon Territory in the early 1940s?
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US & Britain
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Samuel Austin
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led the first of several groups to Texas
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"presidios"
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forts
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who was the most successful empresario
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Stephen Austin
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Texas's Old Three Hundred
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group that Stephen Austin issues 297 land grants to -> Texas
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Sam Houston
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led battle of San Jacinto
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"Lone Star Republic"
Definition
Texas
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