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Nullification Crisis | under Jackson, S. Carolina threatened secession over states' rights to cancel federal acts |
Missouri Compromise 1820 | agreement that Maine would be admitted as a free state and ? would be admitted as a slave state |
Indian Removal Act 1830 | under Jackson, Native Americans would be paid to relocate west of the Miss. River |
Monroe Doctrine 1823 | US proclamation that the Americas were closed to new European colonies |
Manifest Destiny | the belief that the US should occupy the lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
Adams-Onis Treaty 1819 | Spain gave up claims to Florida and Oregon; US gave up TX claims |
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 1848 | ended the Mexican American War and set TX border at Rio Grande |
Mexican Cession | part of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago in which the US bought CA and NM territories for $15M |
Gadsden Purchase 1853 | the US bought narrow strip of land in NM and AZ from Mexico for $10M |