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9.1-9.2 Vocab Quiz
9.1-9.2 Terms
Question | Answer |
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Samuel F.B Morse | Man who built electromagnetic telegraph |
specialization | raising one or two crops for sale rather than a variety for personal use |
Market Revolution | People buying and selling goods rather than using them |
Capitalism | economic system where private individuals control means of production and use to earn profit |
entrepreneurs | person who organizes and assumes risk of business venture |
telegraph | device for electrical transmission of coded messages over wires |
John Deere | Blacksmith who invented steel plow |
Cyrus McCormick | Mechanical reaper inventor |
54;40 or Fight | slogan used in 1844 Presidential campaign as a call for the US annexation of Oregon Territory |
Brigham Young | Joseph Smith's successor who decided to move Mormons beyond US boundaries |
Joseph Smith | one of the Mormon leaders |
Mormons | members of church founded by Joseph Smith and associates in 1830 |
Manifest Destiny | 19th century belief that US would eventually expand into present day Mexico and closer to Pacific Ocean |
Treaty of Fort Laramie | treaty requiring Sioux to live on reservation along Missouri River |
Santa Fe Trail | route from Independence, MO to Santa Fe, NM used by traders in 1800's |
Oregon Trail | Independence, MO to Oregon City, OR used by pioneers traveling to Oregon Territory. |