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4 Cards in this Set
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States' Rights
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Belief that states could block or overrule actionsof the federal government.
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Missouri Compromise
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1820 agreement by Congress that Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and slavery would not be allowed in any states formed north of a line even with Missouri's southern border.
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Manifest Destiny
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The belief by Americans that they were destined to spread out across the continent.
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Secession
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The withdrawal of a state from the Union.
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