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Was the third president of the U.S. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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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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In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government.
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Explored the Louisiana Territory and Western North America.
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It ended the war of 1812. America gains full respect and independence. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/19th.asp
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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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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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The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina, Georgia through Tennessee to the Indian Territory.
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Leader of the women's sufferage movement, women's rights activist, along with being an advocate against slavery.
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Suffrage leader: An advocate to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.
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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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End of war with Mexico and the United States of America.
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Abolitionist leader
Former slave who led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom along the undergroud railroad.
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Former slave & abolitionst leader; stood up for his beliefs, fought for women's rights & black rights.
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Would enable Southerners to reclaim runaway slaves who had escaped to Northern states, where slavery was not allowed.
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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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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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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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Treaty that gave Native Americans control of central plains.
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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 -
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/
