| A | B |
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| Samuel Slater | Responsible for bringing the Industrial Revolution to the US in 1789 |
| Tom Thumb | a Locomotive |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin |
| Erie Canal | waterway connecting NY to the Great Lakes |
| Robert Fulton | Clermont |
| Peter Cooper | Brought the "Iron Horse" to this country in 1830 |
| Francis C. Lowell | Responsible for building textile factory that weaved cloth and made thread |
| Interchangeable parts | helped manufacturing time and costs drop dramatically |
| Cotton gin invention... | was able to clean up 50x more cotton than workers could by hand |
| Cyrus McCormack | Invented the Reaper |
| The invention of the reaper... | could cut up to 4x as much grain as hand workers |
| The effect of the textile factory... | was all the steps of cloth making took place in their factory |
| John Deere | improved the plow |
| The effect of the plow... | was it would cut through the tough roots of prairie grass |
| American Rivers | easiest way to travel pushing boats and rafts downstream with current |
| Industrial Revolution changed farming by | Farmers were able to ship crops quickly and cheaply |
| President Jackson BELIEVED | Indians should move across the country |
| Indian Removal Act | Forced Indians to move across the Mississippi River to Oklahoma |
| Trail of Tears | Many Indians died along the trail west |
| Andrew Jackson | President with little formal education and from west of Appalachians |
| Jackson's enemy | Bank of the United States |
| Jackson had southern states.... | pay a tax on imported goods |
| Oregon trail | was the most popular trail west for search of gold |
| In order to move to Texas you had to... | learn Spanish, become Catholic, and have no slaves |
| Stephen Austin | first person to arrive in Texas |
| Texas was originally owned by | Mexico |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana | President of Mexico who stopped Americans from coming into Texas |
| Battle of Alamo | a Battle between Mexico and US where a lot of americans lost their lives |
| Sam Houston and his Army | defeated Santa Ana and Texas became a republic and then a state |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | ended the Texas/Mexican war and U.S. gained land west of Texas including California |
| Battle of Jacinto | led to the Texas Mexican War |
| Manifest Destiny | the right of the U.S. to expand its borders and claim new land |
