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Manifest destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable -
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Thomas Jefferson Presidency
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James Madison Presidency
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War of 1812
Forced Creeks to relinquish millions of acres of land. Some assimilated into white society -
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Siege of Detroit
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Battle of Lake Erie
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Battle of the Thames
The Battle of the Thames, also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, was an American victory in the War of 1812 against Tecumseh's Confederacy and their British allies. It took place on October 5, 1813 in Upper Canada, near Chatham -
Chesapeake Raid
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Treaty of Ghent
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British attacked New Orleans
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James Monroe Presidency
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Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States -
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John Quincy Adams Presidency
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Andrew Jackson Presidency
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Indian Removal Act of 1830
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William Lloyd Garrison
Most determined abolitionist. Made the liberator -
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Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was part of a series of forced relocations of approximately 100,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government known as the Indian removal -
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Bank War
The Bank War was a political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The affair resulted in the shutdown of the Bank and its replacement by state banks -
Texas Independence
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Martin Van Buren Presidency
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Panic of 1837
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down; unemployment went up; and pessimism abounded. The panic had both domestic and foreign origins -
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William Henry Harrison Presidency
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John Tyler Presidency
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Texas' Annexation rejectedby senate
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James K. POLK Presidency
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At War with Mexico
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad -
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Zachary Taylor Presidency
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First national women’s rights conventionhammered
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Millard Fillmore Presidency
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Know Nothing
The Know Nothing movement, formally known as the Native American Party before 1855 and the American Party after 1855, was a nativist political party and movement in the United States, which operated nationwide in the mid-1850s, originally starting as a secret society -
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James Buchanan Presidency
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Abraham Lincoln Presidency
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American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865, fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America -
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Andrew Johnson Presidency
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Ulysses S. Grant Presidency