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| Louisiana Purchase | the 1803 sale by Franch of much of western North America to the United States |
| Monroe Doctrine | the idea that Europe should not set up new colonies in the Americas and the United States would stay out of Euopean Problems |
| isolationism | a policy of not getting involved in other countries' wars |
| Union | the United States |
| War of 1812 | the last ware the Americans fought against the British |
| Manifest Destiny | the idea that the United States had the right to own and settle lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
| Trail of Tears | the trip on which the Cherokee were forced to go west |
| Underground Railroad | a system that helped slaves escape |
| factory system | a way of making products in which each worker does only a part of the work |
| unions | groups of worker who join together to make business owners change things |
| immigrants | people who come to a new country to live |
| suffragists | the people who worked to get the right to vote for women |
