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Louisiana Purchase
A territory of the western United States extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. It was purchased for $15 million and officially explored by the Lewis and Clark expedition. -
Missouri Compromise
A agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Took place in vaginia led by Nat turner rebel slaves were killed anywhere from 55-65 white people the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification -
Cherokee Indian Removal
The removal occurred when the U.S. military and various state militias forced some Cherokees from their homes in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee and moved them west to Indian Territory -
Mexican American War
the Invasion of Mexico, the U.S. Intervention, or the United States War Against Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.
