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definition: In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was a widely held belief in the United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America. Historian Frederick Merk says this concept was born out of "a sense of mission to redeem the Old World by high example ... generated by the potentialities of a new earth for building a new heaven

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definition: The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands

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definition:The Trail of Tears was a series of relocations of Native Americans in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The relocated people suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route, and more than ten thousand died before reaching their various destinations

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definition: The Missouri Compromise passed Congress in 1820. It admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and barred slavery from the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30' parallel

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definition: 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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Louisiana purchase
definition:the territory sold by France to the US in 1803, comprising the western part of the Mississippi valley and including the modern state of Louisiana. The area had been explored by France, ceded to Spain in 1762, and returned to France in 1800

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definition:Judicial review is the doctrine under which legislative and executive actions are subject to review by the judiciary

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definition:a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution.

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consulate
definition:the government of the first French republic (1799–1804) by three consuls.

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definition: a person who has the right to vote in an election

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definition; a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics:

"the left-wing faction of the party"

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definition: of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes

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definition:(in France before 1789) a tax levied on the common people by the king or an overlord

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definition: an area or amount of land or property, in particular