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Monroe Doctrine
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declared the Americas off-limits to European colonization
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Missouri Compromise
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Missouri admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state
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Trail of Tears
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the trail which the Cherokee people took to their relocation during the Indian Removal Act
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Manifest Destiny
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belief that it was America's God-given right to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean
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Mexican-American War
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war between Texas and Mexico and the US over Texan independence
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Compromise of 1850
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balanced the number of slave and free states in the US
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Fort Sumter
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fort at which the first battle of the Civil War in the US began
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Emancipation Proclamation
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freed enslaved people in all areas that were in rebellion against the United States
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