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32 Cards in this Set
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Marbury v. Madison
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Supreme court case that established the power of judicial review
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Louisiana Purchase
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Land bought from France (Napoleon)1803
Mississippi River to Rocky Mts. |
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Monroe Doctrine
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Warning to European nations not to interfere in the Americas
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Trail of Tears
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Path the Cherokee were forced to travel from Georgia to Indian Teritory
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Missouri Compromise
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Agreement that temporarily settled the issue of slavery in the territories
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Jacksonian democracy
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Political philosophy that puts faith in the common people
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Manifest Destiny
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Belief that the U.S. would expand across the the continent
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Santa Fe Trail
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Trail from Missouri to Sante Fe, New Mexico
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Organ Trail
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Trail from Missouri to Oregon
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Stephen F. Austin
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Most successful land agent in Texas (established Texas colony)
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the Alamo
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key battle in the Texas Revolution
fort attached by the forces of Santa Anna |
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Sam Houston
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First president of the Republic of Texas
Commander of Texas rebels |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Trety ending the War with Mexico
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Market Revolution
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Economic changes where people buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves
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Samuel F. B. Morse
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inventor of the telegraph
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Strikes
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Work stoppages by workers
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immigration
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Migration of people into the U.S.
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National Trades' Union
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Early national workers' organization
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abolition
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The movement to do away with slavery
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Frederick Douglas
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Escaped slave who became a noted abolitionist leader
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Turner's Rebellion
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Violent slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Leader in the abolitionist and women's rights movements
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Sojourner Truth
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Former slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist
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nullification
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The belief that states could ignore federal laws they did not like
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Santa Anna
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Led Mexico to Independence 1821
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Robert Fulton
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inventor of steamboat
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Eli Whitney
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inventor of cotton gin
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Alexander Bell
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telephone inventor
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John Deere
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self-polishing cast steel plow
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McCormick
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mechanical reaper
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Sacajawa
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Native American guide and interpreter
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Indian Removal Act
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Empowered president to move eastern Native Americans west of the Mississippi
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