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What Was The Industrial Revolution?
Definition
Change in social and economic organization which resulted in hand tools with machines.
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Who Was Eli Whitney?
Definition
American inventor who invented the cotton gin.
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Significance Of The Erie Canal?
Definition
It connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie. It made the shipment of goods faster and cheaper, it shortened the distance of travel.
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What Was The Missouri Compromise?
Definition
Agreements made by congress to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states.
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What Was The Trail Of Tears?
Definition
A march in which the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Gerogie to the Indian Territory, thousands of Cherokees died on the way.
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 What Was The Cotton Gin?
Definition
Machine invented by Eli Whitney that cleaned the seeds from cotton fibers.
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What Was Andrew Jackson's War On National Bank?
Definition
Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill to recharter the bank.
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What Was The Tariff Of Abominations?
Definition
Tariff increase that made Southerners believe it was enriching Northerners at their expense.
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What Was The Gag Rule?
Definition
Rule limiting or preventing debate on an issue.
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What Was Abolition?
Definition
Movement to End Slavery.
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Who was Nat Turner?
Definition
American slave whos started the largest slave rebellion in Virgina.
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What Was Antebellum?
Definition
Belonging  to the period before the Civil War.
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What Was Emancipation?
Definition
Freeing of slaves.
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Who Was David Walker?
Definition
African American activist that demanded an end to slavery.
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Who Was Frederick Douglass?
Definition
Abolitionist who escaped slavery.
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Who Was William Lloyd Garrison?
Definition
Abolitionist that published an anti-slavery journal.
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Who Was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Definition
She fought for women's sufferage. She believed that all of humanity should be treated equally.
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Who Was Lucretia Mott?
Definition
Abolitionist who ran the American Antislavery Society and Seneca Falls women's rights convention.
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Who Was Sarah Grimke?
Definition
Abolitionist  and women's right's activist,
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Who Was Sourjouner Truth?
Definition
Former slave, Abolitionist and women's rights activist.
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Who Was Catharine Beecher?
Definition
American educator who encouraged women to pursue a career in teaching.
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Who Was Amelia Bloomer?
Definition
American women's rights and temperance advocate. She presented her views in her own monthly paper, The Lily.
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What Was The Temperance Movement?
Definition
Organized effort to end the drinking of alcholic beverages.
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What was Seneca Falls Convention?
Definition
Women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York.
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What Was The Second Great Awakening?
Definition
religious movement in which individuals had the responsibility of seeking salvation.
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Who Was Dorthea Dix?
Definition
American social reformer and pioneer in the movement for humane treatment of the insane.
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What Was "The North Star"
Definition
Frederick Douglass wrote "The North Star" which was an antislavery newspaper. the north star was the star that fugitive slaves on the underground railroad used to guide themselves to freedom.
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Who Invented The Steam Boat?
Definition
John Fitch Was Granted a U.S Patent for the Steamboat
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Who Was John Deere?
Definition
American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded deere and company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world. Invented the first steel plow.
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Who was Cyrus McCormick?
Definition
He invented the mechanical reaper, which combined all the steps that earlier harvesting machines had.
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Who Was Charles Goodyear?
Definition
He discovered vulcanization, which strengthened rubber for a variety of industrial uses, including automobile tires.
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Who Was Samuel Morse?
Definition

He

was an American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, co-inventor of the Morse code, and an accomplished painter.

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Who Was Brigham Young?
Definition
American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the western United States.
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Who Was Sam Houston?
Definition
American statesman, politician, and soldier. He is best known for his leading role in bringing Texas into the United States.
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Who Was Stephen Austin?
Definition
Texas statesman who was commander-in-chief of the revolutionary forces against Mexico.
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Who Was Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna?
Definition
Mexican soldier and politician.
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Who Was Joseph Smith?
Definition
 He was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
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What Was The Latter Day Saint Movement?
Definition
Comes from Mormonism. Follows Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
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What is Annex?
Definition
to incorporate a territory into an existing political unit, such as a state or nation.
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What Is The Alamo?
Definition

A mission and fort in San Antonio, Texas, where Mexican foces massacred rebllious Texans.

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What was the Texas Revolution?
Definition
Rebellion in which texas gained its independence from Mexico.
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What Was The Republic of Texas?
Definition
Establishment when Americn settlers in Tejas declared and fought for their independence.
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What Was the Battle of San Jancito?
Definition

 

the last battle of the war for Texas' independence from Mexico.

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Who Was The U.S President during The Mexican War?
Definition
James Knox Polk
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What Was The Bear Flag Republic?
Definition
 A revolt against Mexico proclaimed by California
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What Are Forty-Niners?
Definition
One of the people who migrated to California in search of riches after gold was discovered.
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