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Thomas Jefferson
Was the third president of the U.S. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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Steam locomotive
Impact on society: Provide faster land transportation. Richard Trevithick patented a "high pressure engine" and created the first steam-powered locomotive engine on rails.
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Louisiana Purchase Treaty
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government.
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Lewis and Clark
Explored the Louisiana Territory and Western North America.
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Treaty of Ghent with Great Britain
It ended the war of 1812. America gains full respect and independence. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/19th.asp -
Monroe Doctrine
The U.S. adopted the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that America would view any additional colonization in the Western Hemipshere by European country as an act of aggression.
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Sam Houston
U.S. Politician and Military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States.
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Trail of Tears
The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina, Georgia through Tennessee to the Indian Territory.
nps.gov/trte/learn/historyculture/index.htm
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Lucretia Mott
Leader of the women's sufferage movement, women's rights activist, along with being an advocate against slavery.
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Susan B. Anthony
Suffrage leader: An advocate to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.
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California Gold Rush
Economic opportunities: Discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill is the reason for people moving west.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-california/
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Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
End of war with Mexico and the United States of America.
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Harriet Tubman
Abolitionist leader
Former slave who led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom along the undergroud railroad.
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Fredrick Douglas
Former slave & abolitionst leader; stood up for his beliefs, fought for women's rights & black rights.
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Fugitive Slave Act
Would enable Southerners to reclaim runaway slaves who had escaped to Northern states, where slavery was not allowed.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of latitude as the boundary between slave and freee territory and instead,using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area become a free state or slave state.
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Homestead Act
Was intended to make lands opening up in the west available to a wide variety of settlers, which established a lowered land price for people.
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Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln gives the Gettyburg Address. To "bring the country (especially the North) together, when it was divided by different views of the war..." https://guides.loc.gov/gettysburg-address
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Fort Laramie Treaty
Treaty that gave Native Americans control of central plains.
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First Transcontinental Railroad
It stretched from the East Coast to the West Coast in the U.S. Travel is faster, safer and cheaper by train.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-transcontinental-railroad-is-completed
video https://www.nrrhof.org/single-post/2017/05/19/Chinese-Workers-of-the-First-Transcontinental-Railroad -
Dawes Act
Call for the breakup of the previous land settlements. Treatment of Native American tribes as individuals, given smaller allotment of land.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/dawes.asp
video https://www.pbs.org/video/dawes-allotment-act-4gxnnz/
