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What is Manifest Destiny?
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The idea that it was the nation's destiny to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
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From sea to shining sea.
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What was the Jacksonian Democracy?
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The emerging democratic spirit in the United States after Andrew Jackson's election as President in 1828.
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Andrew Jackson
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What are States' rights?
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The theory that states have the right to judge whether a law passed by Congress is unconstitutional.
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What was the Missouri compromise?
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An act in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and forbidding slavery north of parallel 36 degrees and 30'.
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Free and slave states
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What was the indian removal act?
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The 1830 law that authorized the President to move eastern indians to public lands west of the Mississippi.
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Evacuating indians
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What was the trail of tears?
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The forced journey of Cherokee Indians from their homes in Georgia to lands in the west in 1838 - 1839.
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Indian journey
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