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| Battle during the Texas Revolution in which all defenders were killed |
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| Ended American fur trading in the west |
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| Beaver fur went out of fashion and demand fell |
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| provided easier access to workers |
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| Companies built their factories closer to cities and transportation centers in the mid 1800s |
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| Fulton's first full-sized commercial steamboat |
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| International trade was banned |
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| "Rip Van Winkle" - message |
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| Learn from the past and be cautious of the future |
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| Supreme Court case about interstate trade |
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| The United States would receive control of East Florida from Spain in return for U.S. claims to what is now Texas |
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| agents who brought settlers to Texas |
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| an equal balance of free and slave states was maintained |
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based on some of the same political ideals as the new American nation
reason why US architecture is based on Ancient Greece and Rome |
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| became eligible for statehood due to the population boom because of "gold fever" |
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| came up with the idea for a steel plow |
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| came up with the idea of interchangeable parts |
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| caused the Nullification Crisis - (said states could ignore federal laws if they said that they were unconstitutional) |
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| colonists living in California |
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| communication system featuring different combinations of dots and dashes to represent letters, developed by Alfred Lewis Vail |
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| concerned when Mexico became independent from Spain because he thought that European powers would try to colonize newly independent Latin American countries |
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| created a separate ballot for vice president and president |
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| created a writing system for the Cherokee Language |
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| empresario who founded a colony on the lower Colorado River in 1822 |
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| Benefit of the Transportation Revolution |
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| enabled goods to travel more quickly across the United States |
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| enabled people to send news quickly from coast to coast |
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| established a border between the United States and Canada extending to the Rocky Mountains |
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| established the Supreme Court's power to check the other branches of government (judicial review) |
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| expanded by extending suffrage (voting rights) to more white males |
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| Lewis and Clark Expedition |
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| explored the Louisiana Purchase to learn about the plants and animals of the West, and to FIND A RIVER ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN |
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| first U.S. road built by the federal government |
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| forced 800 mile forced march that the Cherokee made in the removal from Georgia |
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| fought for a 10 hour work day for private employees |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| gave Califonia's economy the means to grow by connecting the state to the rest of the country |
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| gold seekers from America and abroad who migrated to California |
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| group of artists whose paintings reflected national pride and an appreciation for the American landscape |
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| had more textile mills because there were more rivers |
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| hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks |
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| his company was the the largest makers of sewing machines, 1860 |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - 1848 |
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| increased the size of the United States by almost 25% |
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| invented by Cyrus McCormick |
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| allowed farmers to plant and harvest huge crop fields |
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| inventions like the plow and reaper |
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| kept the costs of running a mill low |
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| limit naval power on the Great Lakes |
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| locomotive credited with spreading railroad fever |
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| man, from Britain, responsibe for bringing new textile machines to the United States |
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| Francis Cabott Lowell's new system - Lowell Mill |
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| more women became mill workers because of the opportunity to earn better wages then most available jobs |
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| moved west to seek religious freedom |
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nearyly doubled the size of the United States
purchased from France |
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| obvious fate that Americans will expand west |
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| organization of workers who tried to improve working conditions and pay for its members |
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| period of rapid growth during which machines became essential to industry |
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| place where most industry was located in the mid 1800s |
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| prevented the British from taking control of the Mississippi River during the War of 1812 |
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| produced more energy than wood |
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| Transportation Revolution |
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| rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel |
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| Newly independent Latin American Nations |
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| reminded American leaders of their struggles for independence |
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| rewarding supporters with government jobs |
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| Transportation Revolutons effect on farming |
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| settlers plowed up prairies and cut down trees to make farmland out of the midwest |
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| shifted the location of production of cloth from homes to textile mills |
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| inventions during the Transportation Revolution |
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| steam-powered train and steamboat |
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supreme court case about interstate trade
Supreme Court decided that Gibbons' federal license had had priority over Ogden's state sicense |
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| War of 1812's effect on manufacturing in the United States... |
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| Manufacturing increased, govt made uniforms and weapons |
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| the power of the judiciary to declared an act of congress unconstitutional |
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| tools used to produce items or do work |
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| western fur traders and trappers |
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| young members of Congress that called for a trade war against Britain |
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