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Chapters 6-9 Industrial revolution
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10th Grade
11/30/2009

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Industrial revolution
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Rapid growth in use of machines
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Lowell system
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Spinning and knitting combined
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Transportation revolution
Definition
Rapid growth in the modes of transportation
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Cotton Gin
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Machine devloped to remove seeds from cotton
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Cotton Kingdom
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From texas to south carolina
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Abolition
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the complete end of slavry
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2nd great awakening
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rediscovery of religon
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Emancipation
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the complete freedom from anything
(in this case for slave)
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Underground railroad
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path that slaves took to freedom
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Reform Societies
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Groups formed to promote social freedom
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temprence movment
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The ban/ limit on alcohal consumtion
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Entrepreneurs
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people willing to invest money to make a profit
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Santa fe trail
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first major trail used for trade
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Oregon Trail
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the most famous and longst trail
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Manifest Destiny
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a god given right to expand territory
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Mormon Trail
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trail mormons took to find religou freedom
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49's (fourty niners)
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miners who went to california to mine gold in 1849
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gold rush
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gold discovered in california caused rush of people to the area
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California Trail
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trail tht lead people to california
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Butterfield Trail
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A stagecoach trail sometimes used to carry mail
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Pony express
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delivered mail by horses
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Treaty of Ghent
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Between british and american to end the war of 1812
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war of 1812
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british impressidented u.s sailers hoping to take the american colonies
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James madison
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President during war of 1812
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Dolly madison
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saved the portrait of george washington and was one of the last people to evacute the city
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Francis scott key
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wrote the star spangled banner
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Samuel Slater
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brought the ideas of machinery to the americas
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Eli whitney
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made cotton gin and the telegraph
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Samuel Morse
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Invented morse code
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Nat turner's rebellion
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first rebellion against slavery
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Elizabeth cady Stanton
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Organized senec falls convention and wrote the declaration of sentiments
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Fredrick douglas
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Told stories about the horrors of slavery
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Harriet Tubman
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Lead slaves to freedom A.k.a Moses
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Seneca Falls Convention
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First womens rights convention
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Susan B. Anthony, Lucy stone, and Catherine beecher
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Womens rights activists
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