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| 1795; first long-distance paved road built in the US |
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| Immigration in the 1830's and 1840's |
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| Irish immigration reasons |
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| potato famine, peasants were kicked out of their own land |
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| nativist political movement in the 1850's. didn't accept irish-catholic immigrants |
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| Policy of the government of Mexico toward Texas |
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| wanted american immigrants in texas in order to gain protection from Indian attacks; wanted to keep texas as their own land |
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| Opposition party to Manifest Destiny |
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| The event that made Southern states difficult for masters to free their slaves |
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