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| why did we all most get in a fight with British at northern border |
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| us wonted all the land up to Alaska |
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| who did Jefferson send to explore the Louisiana Purchase and beyond |
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made by eli whitney. whitney made it in 1793.
the cotton gin made cleaning cotton faster by geting all the seeds out.
need more slaves to pick cotton to keep up with the work. |
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south was nicked named cotton kingdom because they ran the plantation system
cotton became the souths cash crop. |
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| plantation system was not as good as people thot. factore |
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made the steel plow
the plow made it possible to plant in hard and dry soil.
john deere helped increase settlement.
encouraged slavery in the west |
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| McCormick made the mechanical reaper. the reaper made it easier to harvest wheat. increased even more settlement in the west. |
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the revolution replacing manual labor with machines.
the machines wear being powered by coal and steam. |
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samuel slater had some thin to do with the factory system, he took British factory design and gave it to the US.
the north became dependent on the factory system |
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| eli whitney the same guy that made the cotton gin had an idea to make interchangeable parts for the product line. this helped because when ever some thin would brake u had to buy a hole new machine so this saved time and money. |
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| it opposed further immigration. immigrants became a big problem because they wear takeing jobs from citizens but none of the citizens wonted to work for cheap labor like immigrants did. |
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| the know-nothings wear a secret society that tryed to elect state officials to ban immigration. |
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| the erie canal connected new york city to the great lakes. nyc turned in to a commercial center. steam boats traveled east/west |
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he made the steamboat
it increases movement& trade
traveled on the Erie Canal (east/west) and on the Mississippi River (North/South) |
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| Samuel F.B. Morse's helped unite the continent with communication and increased the speed of business, when he made the telegraph. |
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| a manifest Destiny is when Americans believed they should settle on the west and civilize under Gods name. |
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| oregon trail was found by Lewis & Clark and Settlers and trappers would follow the trail |
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the Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830 by congress and president Jackson
the act forced Choctaw, Creek and Cherokee nations across the MS river to Indian Territory in Oklahoma
but by 1850 congress pass more laws that restricted indians movement to smaller reservations |
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| on the journey to Oklahoma thousands of indians died because government assistance never showed up as promised |
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georfia abolished tribal rule and claimed cherokee land. (found gold)
but supreme court ruled that states could not interfere with indian treaties. it was the governments duty to honor those treaties
(john marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.) by presient jackson |
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texas settlers settled on mexican territory
the deal was all settlers had to become Mexican citizens and convert to Catholicism
Texan settlers revolt and made the stand at the Alamo after General Santa Anna made himself dictator of Mexico. but the revolt was because they dint wont to convert to Catholicism but the main thing really was they wonted slaves but Mexico banded slavery.
Americans lost 8 to 1 |
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Mexico had took annexation as a declaration of war
the was was on the Rio Grande Border.
the US made its military better and defeated the Mexican army in 1848 |
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
mexican cession |
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Mexico gave us Mexican Cession (southwest territory)
we gained control of land thats beside the Pacific Ocean |
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US and Britain signed the treaty because of major disputes
the treaty gave boundaries around Maine and the Great Lakes |
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| Fifty-four Forty or Fight! |
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| 1st American language, words, and letters |
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he thinks machines are takeing over our life, that nothing is natural and its pushing us from god
wrote books (Nature and Self Reliance)
he dont like the fact there are slaves |
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friends with Emerson, but hes a little bit crazier then him.. hes a little bit like a radical
he inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi
was sent to jail for a day cause he dint wont to pay taxes on a war he wont for but his cuzin payed the money and got him out the same day |
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| he thinks that evil and sin are part of human nature. thinks we should stop trying make the world a better place because all that we are doing is messing it up even more. |
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