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The U.S. passed a law that admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state and admitted Maine as a free state balancing the slave and free states. The law also banned slavery from the Louisiana Purchase lands located north of the 36 degree 30' parallel. -
The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy that opposed European Colonialism and the United States would not interfere in European affairs in return the European powers won't interfere in the Americas. -
The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. It triggered a large scale commercial and agricultural development, also many immigrated to the Midwest.
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Construction begins on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, it is the first public railroad in the U.S.
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Andrew Jackson became the 7th president of the United States from 1829 to 1837, he seeked to act as the direct representative of the common man. -
A law that forced Native Americans in the South to move West of the Mississippi River and give up their ancestral lands. -
The Trail of Tears was apart of a series of displacements of Native Americans by the government, -
This was a rebellion by enslaved African Americans in Virginia, at least 51 white people were killed.
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The panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a great depression. -
James K. Polk gets elected as the 11th president of the United States
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The phrase Manifest Destiny emerged and it revived territorial interests to expands the U.S. borders.
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America declares war on Mexico to gain California and other South Western territories. -
News spread rapidly that gold was found in California, over 300,000 foreigners rushed to California and it is estimated that 2 billion dollars worth of gold was extracted.
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The first women's rights convention was held and they discussed about social, civil, and religious conditions and also of course women's rights.
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Warfare between anti and pro slavery settlers erupts in Kansas.
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