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                                                  Historical Contexts

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                                                  Historical Contexts

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Democratic republicans became dominant. Andrew Jackson created just Democrats so that there were eventually 2 dominant political parties.United stated expanded at-least 3x in this era gaining land in the Mexican cession & Louisiana purchase .New states applied for statehood & the west grew in population

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American lawyer and planter, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.

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president in March 1845. wanted to settle oregon boundary dispute with britain. wanted to aquire California. wanted to incorperate Texas into union.

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the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government

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a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.

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a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.

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This "System" consisted of three mutually reenforcing parts: a tariff to protect and promote American industry

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In 1848, gold was discovered by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill, in California. News spread, resulting in some 300,000 men, women, and children coming to California from the rest of the United States and abroad .

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ga period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.

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An act passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to move native americans to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands

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The northern boundary of Oregon was the latitude line of 54 degrees, 40 minutes. "Fifty-four forty or fight!" was the popular slogan that led Polk to victory against all odds.

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regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of missouri

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the belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

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patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts

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Land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains purchased from France for 15 million dollars. It doubled the size of the US at the time, getting more land than the US wanted.