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- made possible the purchase of expensive machinery to run factories
- establishes "scientific socialism" by violent revolution overthrowing the established governments and substituting it with a communist governments
- the belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
- Fill in the blanks to complete the passage describing the major conflict within the British empire.One major problem within the British empire was that the - considered the empire to be a system of - parts under Parliament's command, and colonists considered themselves as - with the rights to govern themselves.
- became the new source of fuel in the iron industry
- Proponents of "no taxation without representation" claimed that although trade regulation was a legal means for Parliament to raise revenue, direct internal taxes like the Stamp Act were an illegitimate extension of parliamentary power.
- Swiss immigrant who received permission from mexico to start a colony in California.
- Fill in the blanks to complete the passage describing the Tea Act.Because of a - of tea, Britain passed the Tea Act, which - the price of tea in the colonies, and simultaneously included a tax to pay for the costs of colonial -, which threatened the power of colonial -.
- When referring to certain rights as "unalienable" in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was essentially indicating that these rights were impossible to take away.
- first felt the impact of the industrial revolution
- Mexican ruler who fought to keep Texas from gaining independence.
- What economic and cultural influences did Native Americans and Mexican Americans have on American settlers in the Mexican Cession.
- invented by Eli Whitney; caused a much a greater demand for cotton
- Fill in the blanks to complete the passage describing the Sweets of Liberty.As time went on, Americans came to believe that their struggle was for -, which were derived from the laws of nature, not as the gift of their chief magistrate. While Americans still revered the king, they demanded that the empire be seen as a collection of equal parts held together by loyalty to -, not a system in which one part ruled over the other.
- suffered the most from the introduction of machinery
- a group of pioneers who were stranded in the sierra Nevada mountains and struggled to survive the winter
- Why did many Americans in the 1840s believe that the United States should annex the territories of Oregon, New Mexico, and Texas.
- Mexican priest who led a rebellion for independence from Spain.
- Massive migration of "Okies" to the Pacific Coast, sped up urbanization in America, worsened the Great Depression because many farmers lost their income and land
- What to produce, how to produce it, and who gets what is produced.