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| started from nothing, western-born, president |
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| invented steel plow for prairie, started company |
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| invented reaper for wheat harvesting |
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| Morse code / telegraph that sped up communication |
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| coined term "manifest destiny" |
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| farm boy, experienced revelations and wrote The Book of Mormon |
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| planned mass Mormon exodus to Utah in face of social prejudice, stern leadership allowed for building of thriving community |
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| American granted huge land tract in Texas by Mexicans wanting to populate territory |
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| general of Mexican army, stubborn |
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| general who avenged Goliad massacre, won Texas's independence |
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| former army captain and explorer, prodded Californians to raise Bear Flag Revolt |
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| president after Tyler, Mexican-American War |
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| became president after William Henry Harrison died a month into office, annexed Texas / set stage for MA War |
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| Tyler's secretary of state, protests against his support of slave Texas |
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| ran against Polk for presidency, against annexation of Texas, might have won if not for third party candidate |
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| transcendentalist and famous poet/writer |
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| notable woman suffragist, first convention of women's rights with "declaration" |
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| abolitionist, escaped slave, educated writer |
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| escaped slave and abolitionist, went back to South countless number of times to help others escape |
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| changes in economy but not abrupt discontinuity |
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| American system of manufacture |
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| manufacturing and assembling interchangeable parts |
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| hard work, self-reliance, and independence, far from ideal with economic disparity |
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| coast to coast, latest justification for white settlers taking land they desire, white supremacy |
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| wagon trail leading to Oregon Country, rough and dangerous plus no picnic once there |
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| restricted Indians to even smaller areas to provide for westward white migration |
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| told story of Hebrew civilization and predicted reappearance of Jesus in America |
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| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Mormons |
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| converts attracted to pure faith in midst of antebellum America's turmoil, believed in Book of Mormon |
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| trek of American traders to Santa Fe, magnet for American enterprise |
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| former mission, Texans refuged here during rebellion against Santa Anna |
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| site for win against Mexicans for Texas |
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| Texas after independence in 1836 |
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| another name for Lone Star Republic |
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| independence movement in California (Sacramento Valley) |
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| over western/southern land including Texas and California, James Polk, 1846-1848 |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo |
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| treaty ending MA War signed in Mexico CIty, US paid for Texas above Rio Grande, California, and New Mexico |
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| discovery of gold in mines in Cali drew migrants and developed mining and eventually large cities |
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| looked within themselves for truth and guidance |
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| developed as alternative to society, wanted to realize visions of perfection |
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| 1841, brief haven for a few literary and artistic New Englanders trying to balance bookish pursuits with manual labor |
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| believed that individualism and competition were evils, failed to realize lofty goals and few survived past a couple years |
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| went beyond Fourierist notion of communalism, no private property including wives |
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| Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments |
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| ambitious agenda to right the wrongs of women and society, written in language of Declaration of Independence |
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