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The development of what spurred the growth of catalog companies

The development of the Sears traveling salesman spurred the growth of catalog companies. Sears is the first company to have an annual catalog for people to order merchandise from.

Father Junipero Serra established a mission at

san diego

The group of people who got the highest paying jobs were

Adult white males.

The trail from Independence Missouri to Santa Fe New Mexico was known as the

Santa Fe Trail

Commanded American troops in the battle at Veracruz

Winfield Scott

Who discovered a way to print books with raised type to help blind people to read

Samuel Gridley howe

Who invented the power loom that could produce 200 times more cloth in one day than was possible before

Edmund Cartwright:b

Public acceptance of women's right to vote came

slowly

The annexation of Texas was delayed because of the slavery issue and

fear that it would lead to war

In the 1890s a few new states in the west permitted women to vote

True

Asked Spain to give the US some Texas land and promised to bring in American settlers

Moses Austin

A person who sees an opportunity and takes advantage of it is called a

A person who sees an opportunity and takes advantage of it is called an opportunist.

entrepreneur

Which working conditions caused workers to protest

Workers protested against dangerous working conditions, long hours, low pay, little or no benefits, short or no lunch breaks or breaks of any kind, etc.

Texas claimed that its southern border was the River

Rio Grande River

The fort that guarded Mexico City was

Chapultepec

Buyers' requests for products is called

demand

President Polk sent to try to buy California and New Mexico

John Slidell

Americans who wanted to add the land all the way to the Pacific were called

expansionists


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The antitrust laws had little effect for many years and powerful business people stayed in control true or false

true

The land given to the united states was called what territory-

The land that was given to the United States was known as the Indian Territory.

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