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| with Leonard Gale, built an electromagnetic telegraph |
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code that Morse tapped out
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| raising 1 or 2 crops cash crops that they could sell at home or abroad |
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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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| economic system in which private biz & individuals control the means of production & use them to earn profit |
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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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| who invented the sewing machine? |
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| who added the foot treadle? |
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| what happened to the price of manufactured items as technology grew? |
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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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| where did the National Road stretch from? |
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| which city became the center link b/w American agriculture & European markets? |
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| who invented the steel plow |
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| who invented the mechanical reaper? |
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| who dreamed that America would become an "empire for liberty"? |
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| how much bigger did the Louisiana Purchase make America? |
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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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| provided natives w/ land, in turn for them to not attack the white settlers |
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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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| started in Independence, MO & ended in Portland, OR [in the Willamette Valley] |
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| religious group led by Joseph Smith to the west |
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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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| 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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| 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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| led the first of several groups to Texas |
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| who was the most successful empresario |
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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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| led battle of San Jacinto |
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