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John Adams
is elected president -
Embargo Act
restricting American ships from engaging in foreign trade. -
The Creek War
The Red Sticks ceded 93,000 acres -
Missouri Compromise
the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Oregon Trail
1830s by mountain men of fur trade,widely publicized by 1843