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29 Cards in this Set
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tenement
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a poorly built, cramped, and unsafe apartment building; has few windows
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Iroquois Confederacy
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union of six Native American groups
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Samuel Slater
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father of the American Industrial Revolution; built first textile mill in 1793
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minutemen
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patriots who promised to be ready to fight at a minute's notice
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migrate
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to move from one place to another
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Lexington
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a town in eastern Massachusetts; site of one of the first battles of the American Rovolution
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Boston Tea Party
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Americans, dressed as Native Americans, boarded a British ship and threw thousands of pounds of tea overboard as a protest
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Industrial Revolution
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late 1700s to middle 1800s when power-driven tools replaced hand tools; began in England
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American Revolution
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the war between the thirteen colonies and Great Britain
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Haiwatha
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Mohawk leader who formed the Iroquois Confederacy
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import
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goods bought from another country
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Hannah Wilkinson Slater
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invented a new way to spin thread into cotton sewing thread
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Great Law of Peace
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Iroquois government where "Their hearts shall be full of peace and good will, and their minds full of yearning for welfare of the people"
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export
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to sell goods to another country
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telegraph
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machine that sends electrical signals through wires; allowed people to communicate over long distance
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sweatshop
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clothing factory where temperatures reached 120 degrees, workers worked 12 - 14 hour days at extremely low pay
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longhouse
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rectangular building made of wood and bark of elm trees; Iroquois home
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Boshwash
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the area in the northeast between Boston and Washington DC; a megalopolis
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megalopolis
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a group of cities so close together that they can be thought of as one huge community
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invention
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something that is created for the first time
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clan
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group of families who share the same ancestor
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George Washington
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leader of the colonists' army; became first president of the US
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Samuel Morse
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invented telegraph
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Boston Massacre
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attack that killed many colonists who couldn't defend themselves
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Patriot
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colonist who protested British ruls
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Ellis Island
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in New York Harbor; the first stop of immigrants who crossed the Atlantic
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terrorism
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the use of fear and violence to gain political goals
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sachem
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council member
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Paul Revere
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rode to Lexington to alert the Minutemen that the British were coming
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