expanding markets and moving west Flashcards

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Specialization

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H

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Market revolution

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People bought and sold goods rather than making them for their own use

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Capitalism

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Economic system where private businesses and individuals control the means of production

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Entrepreneurs

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Investors who risked their own money in new industries

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5
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What year did Charles Goodyear develop vulcanized rubber?

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1839

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6
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Who patented the sewing machine in 1846?

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Elias Howe

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Some inventions made life more enjoyable. Other inventions fueled the economic revolution and transformed…

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Manufacturing, transportation and communication

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8
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How many miles of telegraph wire crossed the country in what year?

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23,000 and 1854

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What Pennsylvanian made a 150 mile trip up the Hudson River in the Clermont?

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Robert Fulton

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Where did Robert Fulton travel to and from and for how long?

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New York City to Albany, New York

32 hours

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Ships could now go upstream because of…?

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Steam engines

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In 1816 how many miles of canals did America have?

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100

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What was the nations first major canal?

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The Erie Canal

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The heyday of canals lasted until what year and why?

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1860’s and the railroads

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By 1850, _______ miles of railroad track had been laid.

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10,000

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In 1818 the National Road reached from where to where?

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Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, Virginia

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By 1838 how far did the national road reach?

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Springfield, Illinois

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18
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The south exported what

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Cotton

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19
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The west exported what

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Grain and livestock

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The east manufactured what

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Textiles and machinery

21
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When did the Erie Canal open?

22
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John Deere invented the first _____ in the year _____

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Steel plow, 1837

23
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What is the mechanical reaper?

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It permitted one farmer to do the work of five hired hands

24
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Who invented the mechanical reaper?

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Cyrus McCormick

25
Who wrote in a Diery of her family's five-month journey to Oregon in what year?
Amelia Stewart knights and 1853
26
Who dreamed that the United States would become an empire for liberty by expanding across the continent?
Thomas Jefferson
27
What does manifest destiny mean to many Americans
To express their belief that the United States destiny was to expand to the Pacific ocean and into Mexican territory
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Why did most Americans move west
For personal economic problems
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What was the greatest attraction to move to the west
The abundance of land
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What did white settlers and western Illinois and eastern Iowa do in the early 1830s
Place great pressure on the Native American people to move west of the Mississippi River
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Where did the Black Hawk war start and where did it spread to?
Illinois and Wisconsin territory
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When did the Black Hawk war end
August 1832
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How did the war end and what was the result
Illinois militia member slaughtered more than 200 Sauk and Fox people the Indian tribes were removed two areas west of the Mississippi
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What grounded neither the Native Americans or settlers dominate
The middle ground
35
What did the Treaty of Fort Laramie do in 1851
Provide various Native American nations to control the central Plains, land east of the Rocky Mountains that stretched roughly from the Arkansas River North to Canada
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What did the Native Americans have to do in return for the Treaty of Fort Laramie
To not attack settlers and to allow the construction of government forts and roads
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What was the busiest and most well known at avenues of trade
Santa Fe Trail
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Where did the Santa Fe Trail lead to and from
Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Why did travelers group together after the first 150 miles to Santa Fe
They were feared of attacks by Kiowa and Comanche tribes
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In 1836 what did Marcus and Narcissa Whitman do in the Oregon territory
They set up mission schools to convert Native Americans to Christianity and educate them
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Where did the Oregon Trail start and end
Independence, Missouri to Portland, Oregon
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How many American settlers arrived in Oregon and more farming it's green and fertile Valley
50,000 Americans by 1844
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What are Mormons
Religious community that would play a major role in the settling of the west
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What is polygamy
Having more than one wife
45
In 1844 who is Jailed for treason and is murdered by an anti-Mormon mob
Joseph Smith
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Salt Lake City blossomed out of the land the Mormons called _____
Deseret
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In 1846 what did great Britain and America peaceably agree on with the boundaries of Oregon territory
To extend the main them boundary with Canada and West word from the Rocky Mountains to Puget Sound establishing the current US boundary
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Who made a 40 mile long telegraph between Baltimore and Washington D.C.?
Samuel F. B. Morse