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practice for a poltical party of public office to supporters

Historical Significance: The Civil Service Reform Act 1883 federal law that ends  the United States Civil Service Commission. It placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called "spoils system."

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The convention declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional within the state of South Carolina after February 1, 1833. Attempts to use force to collect the taxes would lead to the state's secession.

Historical Significance: Jackson's Response to Nullification when South Carolina adopted the ordinance to nullify the tariff acts and label them unconstitutional. South Carolina found itself standing alone.

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In 1838 and 1839, Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in "today's" Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects.

Historical Significance:  The Trail of Tears remains one of the worst human rights disasters to befall Native American peoples in United States history. Between 1838 and 1839, 15,000 Cherokees were taken from their ancestral homes in Georgia and placed on a forced march, finally ending up in the future state of Oklahoma.

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A law signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830s, the Indian Removal Act. The resettlement of Native Americans from east of the Mississippi River to lands west

HIstorical Significance: It is signficant because it led to the eviction of Native Americans and led to them being forced to go to what is now Oklahoma in a movement known as the "Trail of Tears.

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seventh president of the united states. He was the cause of the trail of tears.

Historical Significance: He made the Native Americans move west of the Mississippi River

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People went to california to find gold.

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The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.

Historical Significance: The south gained by the strengthening of the fugitive slave law, the north gained a new free state which is California. Texas lost territory but was fined with 10 million dollars to pay for its debt. Slave trade was prohibited in Washington DC, but slavery was not.

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Boundary dispute between the U.S. and Britain was settled with the signing of the Oregon Treaty. The British gained possession of the land north of the 49th parallel with the United States receiving the territory south of that line.

Historical Signiificance:  Oregon because a state and recieved land.

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A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. The United States won the war

Historican Significance:  The United States received the Mexican Cession which included all of California, Nevada and Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. the issue of slavery in the new territories was raised

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an independent sovereign country in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.
HIstorical Significance: Texas did not remain a Mexican possession for long. It became its own country, called the Republic of Texas, from 1836 until it agreed to join the United States in 1845.

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The Mormon Trail or Mormon Pioneer Trail is the 1,300-mile route that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from 1846 to 1868
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The route which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California. The Oregon Trail passed through what is now Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Idaho.

Historical Significance:route from Missouri to Oregon and California that enabled the migrating of the early pioneers to the western United States.

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19th century, belief of god's plan to travel across continents

Historical Significance:significant to the expansion of the United States in the 19th century. Caused the United States to expand west across North America.  expansion offered self-advancement, self-sufficiency, income and freedom

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United States federal statute  by Henry Clay. Regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting  the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within  boundaries

Historical Significance:  Missouri would be able to join the United States as a slave state only if Maine is added as a free state. This would be a balance in the Senate.  slavery was banned  in any new states north of Missouri.

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the policy of promoting industry in the U.S. by  a high protective tariff and of creating inside improvements by the federal government

Historical Significance: envisioned a protective tariff, a national bank owned by private stockholders and the federal government.

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intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
Historical Significance:efforts by European nations to colonize land in North or South America, would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.

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The Marbury v. Madison case established the principle of Judicial Review giving the Supreme Court the power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional.

Historical Significance:  arguably the most important supreme court history,

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Lousiana Purchase is when the Unitesd States population was growing and people were moving west. Jefferson was worried about the french control of New Orleans and the Mississippi River.

Historical Significance: Gave the U.S control of the Mississippi River and the port city of New Orleans