| A | B |
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| Monroe Doctrine | declared the Americas off-limits to European colonization |
| nationalism | the interests of the nation as a whole are more important than regional interests |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, while Maine would be admitted as a free state |
| Indian Removal Act | called for the relocation of the five Indian nations |
| Second Bank of the United Sates | national bank overseen by the federal government |
| Industrial Revolution | the birth of modern industry |
| Second Great Awakening | new religious movement |
| transcendentalism | the belief that knowledge is not found only by observation of the world |
| Seneca Falls Convention | first woman's rights convention held in America |
| Lucretia Mott | helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention |
| Underground Railroad | network of escape routes from the South to the North |
| Harriet Tubman | famous Underground Railroad conductor |
| Fredrick Douglas | abolitionist and supporter of womens rights |
| manifest destiny | belief that it was America's God-given right to settle land all the way to the Pacific coast |
| gold rush | mass migration to California of miners |
| Oregon Treaty | set the boundary between British Canada and the United States |
| Antonio de Santa Anna | president of Mexico |
| Alamo | once a mission, now a military stronghold |
| Sam Houston | won first Texan election for president |
| Mexican-American War | ignited over a boundary dispute |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | ended Mexican-American War |
