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John Adams is elected president
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Missouri Compromise
was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
Monroe Doctrine
is a policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823. It stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention. -
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a waterway in New York that runs about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes -
Indian Removal act
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Homestead Act
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13th Admendment
to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime -
15th Amendment
) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen suffrage based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
DAwes Act
was enacted by the U.S. Congress regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma) -
fourteen points speech