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2,000 mile long path from Missouri to Oregon
What is the Oregon Trail?
Belief in the God-given fate of settling land from Atlantic to Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
First industry to begin using machines to produce goods
What is the textile industry?
Forms of transportation improved during the Transportation Revolution
What are steamboats and steam-powered trains?
The mass production of goods was made possible by this man's idea of interchangeable parts
Who is Eli Whitney?
Members of Joseph Smith's church.
Who were the Mormons?
Border disputes and an attack on American forces
What is the cause of the US declaring war on Mexico?
Part of the country in which most textile mills were located
What tis the northeast?
Results of faster travel and reduced shipping costs of goods came from this
What is the Transportation Revolution?
The first machines of the Industrial Revolution were powered by this
What is water?
Location of Brigham Young's final destination
What is Salt Lake City, Utah?
This made water rights in the West so important.
What is a dry climate?
Slater's strategy of hiring families to work in factories
What is the Rhode Island System?
This court case reinforced federal power over water-rights
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
Generally provided goods and services as well as boarding houses for miners
Who are women and immigrants?
Sought by Mexicans to protect and control the region.
What are Texas settlers?
Pioneer group stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the Winter
What is the Donner party?
System that employed young women to work a thread and cloth factory
What is the Lowell System?
Device by Samuel Morse that sends info over wires
What is the telegraph?
Fur traders and trappers selling furs to John Jacob Astor
Who are mountain men?
Western trail from MO to NM that was an important trade route for Americans and Mexicans
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
Swiss immigrant who settled in California & began a mill.
Who is John Sutter?
Workers sometimes go on THIS to demand better working conditions
What is strike?
Designer of the steel plow
Who is John Deere?
Industry grown by the need for efficient fuel for steam-powered engines
What is the coal industry?