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secretly by Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison,
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which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.
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Thomas Jefferson was elected as president, marking the shift in power from the the Federalist Party to the Republican Party. It is important to note that this was a PEACEFUL transfer of power, and that Federalist policies and ideas still lived on for years.
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comprising the western part of the Mississippi valley and including the modern state of Louisiana.
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The indians went against the Americans
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to present petitions for greater self-government for Texas to Mexican president Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
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the battle for the Alamo was raging, Texans had declared their independence from Mexico.
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part of his plan to seize New Mexico and California, Polk ordered Colonel Stephen Kearny to march from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, across the desert to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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James Marshall, an American carpenter working on John Sutter’s property in the California Sierra Nevadas, discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill.
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United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.