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| disputed area in the Northwest jointly occupied by the US and Great Birtain |
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| US government policy statement in which the Americans were declared off limits to European Expansion |
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| Henry Clay's federal program for enconomic development. It included a national bank, protective tariff, and a national transportation system. |
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| Creation of profitable national markets durning the 1800's brought about by new transportation and regional specialization. |
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| Gold or silver coins that a bank held in order to back up its notes. |
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| Shift from hand production to machine production which had begun in England in the 1700's |
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| Economic collapse caused in part by state banks lending money that they could not afford to back with specie |
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| Act the maintained the balance of alave and free ststes in Congress by admitting Missouri as a slave stste and Maine as a free state, while prohibitiong the spread of slavery in territories north of the latitude 36. |
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| Doctrine of Nullification |
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| Theory of the states' right to refuse to obey an act passed by Congress that they considered unconsitutional. |
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| Political practice intriduced by Andrew Jackson of giving government lobs to supporters. |
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| Federal law that provided for the relocation of Indian nations living east of the Mississippi River ti Indian territory in present day Oklahoma |
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| Forced relocation of Cherokees from Georgia to Indian Territory during which many Indians died |
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| Resistance by the Seminoles to their removal from Florida. It cost more money and lives than any other Indian War inAmerican history |
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| Satate banks that received deposits of federal funds because of their officer's loyalty to the Democratic Oarty and President Andrew Jackson |
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| Soscial class that fills occupies the position between the wealthy and the poor |
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| Tacticc used by labor unions in which works refuse to work until employers meet union demands |
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| Policy of favoring native born Americans over immigrants |
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| small farmers who own and cultivate their own land |
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| Machine invited by Ei Whitney in 1793 to sperate seeds from cotton fiber |
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| People who supervise workers |
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| Slave assisants who helped overseers supervise other slaves |
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| Network that helped slaves escape to the North or Canada before the Civil War |
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| Renewal of religious faoth that swept through the united States begining in the 1970's |
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| Communities that attempted to experiment with new ways of organizing family life, work,and property ownership in order to create an ideal society |
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| Treatment to restore someone to a useful and constructive place in society |
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| Reform efforts to curb or limit alcohol consumption |
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| Legal ban on the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages |
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| American Anti Slavery Society |
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| First national anti-slave organization devoted to immediate abolon |
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| First national anti-slave organzation devoted to immediate abolitionMeeting held in Seneca Falls, New York, that marked the birth of organized women's inthe Us. |
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| Revolt against Mexico by Tejanos and American settlers in Texas after the loss of state power |
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| Conflict between Mexico and the Us brought about by the US annexation of Texas and its quest for more terriotry |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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| Agreement ending the Mexican War in 1848, which Mexico ceded Teaxs and the rest of its Western Territory |
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| Area surrendered by Mexico to the US in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo;included the present day states of Nevada, California, and Utah and parts of Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. |
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| Agreement by which the US Acquired Mexico's terriory south of the Gila-River in present day Arizona and New Mexico for 10 million dollars |
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| Route to the Oregon during the 1800's |
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| Nickname for the gold seekers who went to Calfornia, beginning in 1849. to seek their fortune |
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| California raids by the Miwoks and the Yokuts to reclaim Native American lands taken over by the miners |
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| Right of the people to rule, used an argument for letting cictizens of a new territory decide whether or not to allow them to permit slavery there |
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| Political party formed by antislavery Whigs and Democrats in 1848, that opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories |
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| Measures proposed by Henry Clay that temporarily settled differences between the North and South over slavery issues |
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| Measures proposed by Henry Clay that temporarily settled differences between the North and South over slavery issues |
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| Law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 that made it a Federal crime to assist runaway slaves |
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| Federal law that established popular sovereignty in newly organized territories |
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| Supereme Court case in which the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional and in which Scott a slave was declared nit ti be a citizen |
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