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a Protestant religious revival during 19th century. Membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement
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-machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber
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Literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in Richmond that was unsuccessful due to plans being told beforehand
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acquisition of the Louisiana territory by United States from France
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case by the US Supreme Court that formed the basis of judicial review in US under Article III of Constitution
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first american expedition to cross the western portion of the United States
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prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports
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naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia between British warship HMS Leopard and American frigate USS Chespeake
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4th president
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This act replaced the Embargo Act of 1807. This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports
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territorial expansion of the United States from 1812 to 1860, from the end of the War of 1812 to the beginning of the American Civil War
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Americans attacked and won a victory over British and Native Americans at the Battle of the Thames where Tecumseh was killed
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He introduced a power loom based on the British model with significant technological improvements. He also hired young farm girls who became mill girls
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A British attack on Washington DC the capital on the US during War of 1812 that resulted in a British victory
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In Hartford Connecticut New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances of the war of 1812 and political problems
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two centuries of peace between the United State and Britain
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series of engagements constituting the last major battle of the war of 1812
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ended the War of 1812 between United States and British. Peace negotiations began in Ghent Belgium
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the mood of victory that swept the nation at the end of the War of 1812. Replaced the bitter political divisions between Federalists and Republicans, the North and South, and the East Coast cities and settlers on the American frontier.
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Firth president of the United States
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treaty between the United States and Great Britain that limited naval armaments on Great Lakes and Lake Champlain
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convention respecting fisheries, boundary and restoration of slaves between US and Britain and Ireland
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Spain ceded Florida to U.S. and created the border between U.S. and new Spain
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landmark decision by US Supreme Court. Maryland attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the US by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland.
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first major peacetime financial crisis in US followed by a general collapse of the American economy through 1821
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landmark decision in US corporate law from the US Supreme Court dealing with the application of the US Constitution to private corporations
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effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states. Admitted Missouri as slave state and Maine as free state
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Finney was the greatest American evangelists who was responsible for the rise of religious fervor
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a freed slave that planned a slave rebellion in Charleston North Carolina but failed due to everyone hearing about the revolt beforehand
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United States policy of opposing European colonialism into the Americas
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was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the US held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.
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House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams as president due to Henry Clay's influence. He was the 6th president
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A canal in New York that is part of the east-west cross state route
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Religious group that owned the property and had founded the communal village of Harmony
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resolution to heavy drinking
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American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education.
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protective tariff passed by Congress of the US designed to protect industry in the northern US
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Won a popularity vote of the electoral college in 1824 election. 7th president of US.
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in western New York. Initial converts were drawn to the church in part because of the newly published Book of Mormon, a self-described chronicle of indigenous American prophets that Smith said he had translated from golden plates.
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signed into law by President Andrew Jackson authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.
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political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. When Congress voted to reauthorize the Bank, Jackson, as incumbent and candidate in the race, promptly vetoed the bill.
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a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader
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a case in which the US Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state
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The convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina after February 1, 1833. They said that attempts to use force to collect the taxes would lead to the state's secession.
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formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party. Whigs supported the supremacy of the US Congress over the Presidency and favored a program of modernization, banking, and economic protectionism
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It cost three men their lives and provided the legal basis for the Trail of Tears, the forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia. Ceded Cherokee land to the US in exchange for compensation
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wanted to educate women so they too could become teachers and she began fundraising effort to support her school of educating women
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the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution
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a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission
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a United States presidential executive order issued by President Andrew Jackson, pursuant to the Coinage Act and carried out by his successor, President Martin Van Buren. It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver.
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Frederic Henry Hedge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley, and George Putnam met in Cambridge, Massachusetts to discuss the formation of a new club; their first official meeting was held eleven days later at Ripley's house in Boston.
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traditional reader including stories, poems, and new word drills by William Holmes McGuffey
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8th president and his policies were unpopular
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a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. Pessimism abounded during the time.
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address has come to be seen as a significant essay, both in American literature and American history,
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part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects.
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treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies (canada)
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a diplomatic agreement between Qing-dynasty China and the United States
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11th president
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incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, republic declared independence from the Republic of Mexico 1836
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armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States and dealt with Mexican cession
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short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities.
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was an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. He founded the Putney, Oneida, and Wallingford Communities, and is credited with coining the term "complex marriage".
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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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gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California
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a philosopher and writer best known for his attacks on American social institutions and his respect for nature and simple wrote that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing the government to make them the agents of injustice.
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American Commodore Matthew Perry 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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a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased from James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time
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the first treaty between the United States of America and the Tokugawa Shogunate.
