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rush bagot treaty

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agreement that limited naval power on the great lakes to the u.s. and british canada

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convention of 1818

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gave the us fishing rights in newfoundland and set the us and canadian border at the 49th parallel

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adams onis treaty

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agreement in which spain gave up all of florida to the us

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monroe doctrine

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forebidded further colonization in the americas and declaring that the us would view any attempt by a foreign country to colonize as a hostile act

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missouri conpromise

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an agreement whereby states entered as pairs one slave one fee; also it banned slavery north of the southern boundary of missouri

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american system

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henry clay's plan for raising tariffs to pay for internal improvements such as better roads and canals

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cumberland road

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first federal road project construction of which began in 1815 ran from cumberland maryland to present day wheeling west virginia

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erie canal

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canal that ran from albany to buffalo new york completed in 1825

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john quincy adams

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unkpopular us president served from 1825-1829

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nominating convention

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meetings where a political party selects ets presidential and vice presidential candidates first held in the 1820s

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andrew jackson

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popular us president elected in 1828; first president from the west

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democratic party

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political party formed by supporters of andrew jackson after the presidential election of 1824

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spoils system

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spoliticians practice of giving government jobs to their supporters rewarding friends with jobs

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kitchen cabinet

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president andrew jackson's group of informal advisers so called because they sometimes met in the white house kitchen

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states rights

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belief that the power of the federal government regarding the states is strictly limited by teh constitution

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nullification crisis

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a dispute between south and the federal government in the late 1820s over the states right to nullify or cancel an unpopular tariff

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whig party

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political party formed by opponents of andrew jackson in 1834 who supported a strong legislature

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panic of 1837

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a financial crisis in the us that led to an economic depression

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indian removal act

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congressional act that authorized the removal of american indians who lived east of the mississippi river in 1830

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indian territory

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area covering most of present day oklahoma to which most american indians in the southeast were forced to move in the 1830s

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bureau of indian affairs

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government agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward american indians

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worcester v. georgia

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court case which upheld the identity of the cherokee nation

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trail of tears

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1838-1839 an 800 mile forced march make by the cherokee from their homeland in georgia to indian territory resulted in the deaths of thougands of cherokee

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james fenimore cooper

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he wrote historical fiction like the last of the mohicans

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catharine maria sedgwick

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american woman writer of six historical novels

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hudson river school

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group of american artists in the mid 1800s whose pictures focused on the american landscape