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Nationalism
Nationalism was the patriotic sense that people got during and after the war of 1812 -
States' rights doctrine
In American political discourse, states' rights refers to political powers reserved for the U.S. state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment. -
Missouri Compromise
The compromise was agreed to by both the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820, under the presidency of James Monroe. it was an important event to history. -
Adams -Onis Treaty
Treaty between the United States and Spain was negotiated by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and the Spanish Minister to the US. -
Monroe Doctrine
is the cornerstone of the U.S. foreign policy. -
Bureau of Indian affairs
The bureau of Indian affairs was created to manage Indian dealings -
Sectionalism
The struggles between division over slavery. -
The Tariff of Abominations
it was a protective tariff passed to protect industry in the northern U.S. -
The Railroad and the Locomotive
There were only 13 miles of track for that first locomotive, but it wasn't long before train travel expanded. They had several advantages over stagecoaches and steamboats: they could travel much faster, and they could go nearly anywhere track was laid. -
Indian Removal Act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. -
Nullification crisis
the confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government. -
Alamo
is the battle during Texas' war for independence from Mexico -
Telegraph
The invention of the Telegraph. -
Trail of Tears
The trail of tears was a 2000 mile path that led Cherokee Indians out of their native Georgian homes and into the Kansas and Nebraska territories. -
Abraham Lincoln
is elected as president -
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Civil War
Conflict between the North and the South over the expansion of slavery into the western states. -
Homestead Act
law allowing settlers to claim land after they lived on it for five years.
