Us Vocab

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Monroe Doctrine

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An American foreign policy opposing interference in the western hemisphere from outside powers

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Political Parties

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an organization to gain political powe

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Trail of Tears

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The route along which the United States government forced several tribes of Native Americans, including the Cherokees, Seminoles, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Creeks, to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s.

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Nullification

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the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress

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Spoils system

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The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters

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Adams-Onis Treaty

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The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty or the Purchase of Florida, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.

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Federalism

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The federal principle or system of government

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Indian Removal Act

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The act authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate with the Native Americans in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.

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Missouri Compromise

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An agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories

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Tariff of Abominations

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The Tariff of 1828 was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States

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Gadsden Purchase

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A 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853

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National

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Of or relating to a nation; common to or characteristic of a whole nation

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Sectionalism

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Restriction of interest to a narrow sphere