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Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States.
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Made the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber faster.
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Revolution of 1800
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Leader of an unsuccessful slave revolt in Richmond Virginia.
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Doubles the size of the United States
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Forms the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the US under the constitution
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Their expedition began near St.Louis and made its way westward, passed through the continental divide to reach the Pacific coast.
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Prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports
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Naval engagement between British warship HMS Leopard and American frigate USS Chesapeake
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The democratic republic James Madison defeated federalist Charles Pickney.
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The Embargo Act of 1807 was replaced by the unenforceable Non-Intercourse act.
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Territorial expansion of the United States from 1812 to 1860. This era, from the end of the War of 1812 to the beginning of the American Civil War.
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Tecumsehs death marked the end of Indian resistance east of the Mississippi river.
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He was inspired to create his own manufacturing enterprise in the U.S.
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British attack the Capital of the US during the War of 1812
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Two centuries of peace between the U.S. and Britain
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Constituted the last major battle of the War of 1812.
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The Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
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New England delegates met to discuss their grievances. In protest to president James Madison's war policies
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Sense of national purpose and desire for unity among Americans after the war 1812.
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James Monroe became the last president during the first party system era of American politics.
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Treaty between US and United Kingdom limiting naval armaments on the Great lakes and Lake Champlain, following the war of 1812
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Set boundary between Missouri territory in the U.S. and British North America at the 49th parallel.
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Treaty between U.S. and Spain that ceded Florida to the U.S.
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The power of congress to charter a bank, this sparked the issue of division of powers between state and federal government.
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First major peacetime financial crisis in the U.S.
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Decision from U.S. corporate law for the U.S supreme court to deal with application of the contract clause of the U.S. constitution to private corporations.
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Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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A slave rebellion that never happened in Charleston S.C.
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Policy that declared the U.S. wouldn't tolerate intervention by European nations in the affairs of nations in the Americas
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John Quincy Adams was elected over Andrew Jackson. It was believed that Clay the speaker of the house convinced congress to elect Adams, he then made clay his secretary of state.
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Gave individuals the right to operate steamboats on waters within state jurisdiction.
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First canal in the U.S. to connect western waterways with the Atlantic Ocean.
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Robert built this town with intention to create a new Utopian community
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He encouraged influential men to keep their businesses closed on Sundays, and became a leading voice in the temperance movement
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Designed to protect industry in the Northern U.S.
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Andrew Jackson was elected as the 7th President. He was known to have founded the Democratic party and support individual liberty.
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Informally known as the Mormon Church.
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The burned-over district refers to the western and central regions of New York in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the Second Great Awakening took place
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Authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
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He vetoed the re-charter of the Second Bank by arguing that in the form presented to him it was incompatible with justice, sound policy and the Constitution.
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Sectional political crisis between South Carolina and the Federal Government.
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A brief conflict between the U.S and Native Americans led by Black Hawk
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Formed in opposition to the policies of Andrew Jackson and his democratic party
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Ceded Cherokee land to the U.S in exchange for compensation.
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Beecher hoped that her school could serve as a model for a nationwide system of teacher colleges
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In the early stages of Texas' war for independence from Mexico, a group of Texan (or Texian) volunteers led by George Collinsworth and Benjamin Milam overwhelmed the Mexican garrison at the Alamo and captured the fort, seizing control of San Antonio.
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The first meeting was held at Ripley's house in Boston
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The first reader moved on to more difficult words and introduced simple sentences.
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The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution.
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It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver.
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American educational reformer dedicated to promoting public education.
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financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s.
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American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United States
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Cherokee nation was forced to give up their land and migrate to present day Oklahoma.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson gave this speech to the Harvard graduating class of 1838
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Treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies (i.e. the region that became Canada).
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Allowed American citizens to merchandize equally in the five treaty ports.
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James K. Polk, a Democrat, assumed office after defeating Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election.
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Six months after the congress of the Republic of Texas accepts U.S. annexation of the territory, Texas is admitted into the United States as the 28th state.
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Short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities
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Armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848
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The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
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James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California.
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Most successful of the utopian socialist communities in the United States
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He spent a night in jail for this offense in 1848, and was released the next morning when a friend (against his wishes) paid the tax for him. The following year his essay on the topic, "Civil Disobedience," was published.
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led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world.
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The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
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First treaty between the United States of America and the Tokugawa Shogunate
