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| sectionalism | planning the intrests of one's own region ahead of the nation as a whole |
| Missouri Compromise | laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between states |
| Monroe Doctrine | policy of opposition to any European interference |
| Andrew Jackson | a poor farmer who became the US president |
| Jacksonian Democracy | his democracy gave more powers to the common man |
| Jackson's Views to Native Americans | he supported the relocation of the Native Americans to move west so the US could have more land |
| The Indian Removal Act | act that was enforced by Jackson to remove the Indians and relocate them in the west |
| Trail of Tears | a journey with devasting effects for the Indians who moved West |
| Tariff of Abominations | a protective tax that increased the tax on imported goods and raw materials |
| Nullification Crisis | This ordinance declared, by the power of the State itself, that the federal Tariff of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina |
| Reasons for moving West | having a better life, the Gold Rush, escaping from criminal punishment |
| Whig Party | a political party organized to opposed the policies of Andrew Jackson |
| election of 1840 | Harrison vs. Van Buren, Harrison won but died a month later |
| 3 of the Trails that went West | Santa Fe, Oregon, Mormon |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that the US was destined to stretch across the continet from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| a Cause of the War with Mexico | US wanted to own Texas but Mexido didn't want it to |
| an effect of the War with Mexico | the US got more land than just Texas |
| Mexican Cession | US got California, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico |
| California Gold Rush | god discovered in California in 1849 caused the population of California to get bigger |
