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Workers started to organize labor unions or or groups that advocate for workers rights and protections, together the workers had more of a powerful voice and demanded for better pay and safer work -
One of the most important travels to the west, Mexico was eager to support individual land and ownership -
Mexico won their independence from Spain after an 11-year war, the new nation of Mexico made lands that we now call Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, and some parts of Colorado and Wyoming, the Mexican government gave land grants to American farmers and merchant's -
The presidential election of 1824 scarred John Quincy Adams, both candidates embodied the regional differences that made things divide the country -
The westered migration of easterners changed American culture, the west inspired ideals of individualism or self reliant independence, the early 19th century Americans started exploring, moving, and living in the west -
Regions of the country were having trouble compromising, northeast and the south kept disagreeing over tariffs, the bill named the tariff of 1828 was a win-win for the federal government and the northeast -
The united states in the 1830's economy was messed up and the depression dragged on, half of the factories let go of their workers and closed down, most unemployed people in the cities starved and lived on the streets -
Irish immigrants represented the largest number of new people to the united states, most of them were poor farmers and had no opportunity to improve their life on their homeland, the country started experiencing widespread starvation because the Irish famine -
The number of immigrants going to the united states alarmed native born Americans because they feared that the influence of new languages, and new cultural traditions might change the cultural traditions of united states, their fear influenced prejudices and judgments about groups of people -
After the Texas war for independence Texas was a independent nation that is known as republic of Texas, the Texas flag has one star which the nation nicknamed it as the lone star -
When the second bank closed people flocked Jacksons pet bank, weeks after Martin Van Buren won election in 1836 the banks went into trouble which spread to the country and became a panic that made people go to the bank and exchange their money to gold and silver -
Workers found flakes of gold on January 24, 1848 and Sutter swore the workers to secretly, after a few years Sutter men stopped working, abandoned the colony, and went hunting for gold -
Americans blamed the country's economics woes on Van Buren, they nominated William Henry Harrison of Ohio for their candidate and John Tyler for his running mate of Virginia, Harrison a national figure because he led the U.S. army troops against the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 -
With the fall of Mexico city the united states won Mexican-American war which ended in February 1848, a treaty set Rio Grande as the boarder between Texas and Mexico -
Around 80,000 new gold seekers moved to California, they were named forty-niners because they arrived in 1849