US1 Chapter 9, Sections 1&2

Samuel Morse

1861, invented the telegraph. Secured $30,000 from Congress to support his experiment with "talking wires." 1844, strung wire 40 mi. from Washington to Baltimore.

Market Revolution

Change in the way Americans made, bought, and sold goods

Capitalism

An economic system based on private property and free enterprise.

entrepreneur

A person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business

telegraph

An Apparatus that's used electric signals to transmit messages

John Deere

United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)

Cyrus McCormick

Invented the mechanical reaper

Manifest Destiny

A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Provided various Native American nations control of the Central Plains

Santa Fe Trail

A trail that began in Missouri and ended in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Oregon Trail

A 2,000-mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from western Missouri to Oregon Country.

Mormons

Church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, religious group that emphasized moderation, saving, hard work, and risk-taking; moved from IL to UT

Joseph Smith

Founder of Mormonism

Brigham Young

United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith

"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"

A slogan adopted by mid-nineteenth century expansionists who advocated the occupation of the Oregon territory.