Market Revolution A change in the manual labor system starting in the south Westward Expansion Government trying to get people to move west The gold was discovered Mexican - American War 1

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   1. Market Revolution 
      1.  A change in the manual labor system starting in the south
   2. Westward Expansion
      1. Government trying to get people to move west
      2. The gold was discovered
   1.  Mexican - American War
      1. 1835 the Texans fought for independence from MExico
         1.  San Jacinto
      2. In 1846 Mexico declared war on the US
         1. The battle of Palo Alto  
            1. May 1846
      3.  The last major battle is the Battle of Buena Vista
      4. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
   2. Civil War  
      1. War between the Northern states and the Southern states
      2. The official start was at Ft. Sumter which was a Southern states
      3. January 23, 1862 was an attack on the Confederacy
      4. Thousands of people had to have amputations
      5. The south lost buyers of cotton
      6. Abraham Lincoln assassinated on April 14, 1865
      7. The reconstruction was directly related to the Civil War
   3. Transcontinental Railroad
      1. Council Bluffs, Iowa to California
      2. 1,087 miles by the Union Pacific
      3. 690 miles by the Central Pacific
      4. May 10, 1869 the golden spike was driven into place

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