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| a preference for native-born people and a desired to limit immigration |
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| This individual was president of the second Bank of the United States |
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| a revolution occurred in business and industry |
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| a major East – West Highway that was funded by congress |
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| This invention was important because it prevented many foods from spoiling |
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| Became a prominent leader of the anti–slavery movement |
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| This invention removes cotton seeds |
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| This law help the states relocate Native Americans to largely uninhabited regions of west of the Mississippi |
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| Enslaved minister who believed God had chosen him to bring his people out of bondage |
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| A rigid system in which many enslaved persons were organized into work groups that labored from sun up to sundown |
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| Are compromised groups of workers who press for better working conditions and member benefits |
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| Built thousands of miles of tollroads because the Constitution did not state that the federal government could do it |
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| This event describes the chaos and economic crisis that saw many farmers saw their land and banks fail |
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| American inventor who improved communication by developing Morse code and perfecting the telegraph |
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| Request to enter the union as a slave state created a problem because it would upset the balance of power between slave and free states in the Senate |
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| in this forced march about 2000 Native Americans died of starvation disease and exposure in addition to the roughly 2000 that had died in camps while waiting for the Westward March |
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| used by the Whigs in the election of 1840 referred to a presidential candidate's battle victory to his vice presidential running mate, John Tyler |
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| this successful completion between Lake Erie and the Hudson River marked the beginning of a transportation revolution that swept through the Northern state |
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| threatened to secede from the Union when Congress levied a new tariff that critics called the "Tariffs of Abominations" |
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| the practice of appointing people to government jobs based on party loyalty and support |
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| an order issued by President Jackson requiring that all payments for public lands be made in gold and silver |
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| was an improvement over barges because it could travel upstream |
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| by 1850, mechanized water transportation had come to the United States and approximately 700 steamboat traveled the nation's waterways |
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| advocated expanding the federal government |
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| also wanted to encourage industrial and commercial development, and create a centralized economy |
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| was accused of winning the presidency through a "corrupt bargain" in which Adams gave Henry Clay a cabinet post in return for his support |
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| won the presidency by winning the election of the House of Representatives |
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| replaced the caucus system of choosing a party's nominee with the national nominating convention |
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| the significance of the change from the caucus system to the national nominating convention is that the latter was less exclusive |
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| the solution that emerged was to admit Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state |
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| an accepted amendment to the Missouri Compromise was that slavery could not expand in Louisiana Territory north of Missouri's southern boundary |
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| destroyed the Second Bank of the United States by withdrawing the governments deposits from the Bank |
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| his outraged supporters decided to break with the faction of the party allied with John Quincy Adams and called themselves Democratic Republicans, later known as Democrats |
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