________ passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, thereby granting the president authority to begin treaty negotiations that would give Native Americans land in the West in exchange for their lands east of the Mississippi.
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American victory
The ________ helped set the United States on the path to becoming a world power and served as a training ground for the Civil War.
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US government
Filibustering, as it was called, involved privately financed schemes directed at capturing and occupying foreign territory without the approval of the ________.
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Young America
The ________ movement downplayed divisions over slavery and ethnicity by embracing national unity
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Martin van Buren
President ________, in 1838, decided to press the issue beyond negotiation and court rulings and used the New Echota Treaty provisions to order the army to forcibly remove those Cherokee not obeying the treatys cession of territory.
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Indian removal
The allure of manifest destiny encouraged expansion regardless of terrain or locale, and ________ also took place, to a lesser degree, in northern lands.
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racial conflict
Linguistic, cultural, economic, and ________ roiled both urban and rural areas.
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Santa Anna
________, governing as a dictator, repudiated the federalist Constitution of 1824, pursued a policy of authoritarian central control, and crushed several revolts throughout Mexico.
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Texas annexation
________ had remained a political landmine since the Republic declared independence from Mexico in 1836.
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expansion of influence
The ________ and territory off the continent became an important corollary to westward expansion.
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US Mexican War
The ________ had an enormous impact on both countries.
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The Indian Removal Act?
______________________ granted the president authority to begin treaty negotiations that would give Native Americans land in the West in exchange for their lands east of the Mississippi
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How was the Indian Removal Act justified? Many claimed that it would protect Native American communities from outside influences that jeopardized their chances of becoming “civilized” farmers
Many claimed that it would protect Native American communities from outside influences that jeopardized their chances of becoming “civilized” farmers
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The Trail of Tears
________________ was a series of forced displacements that resulted in thousands of deaths
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What debate began in response to westward expansion?
The debate of how the the government should pay for necessary internal improvements
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The debate over slavery
_________________________ was the driving factor of the Texas Revolution
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It helped set the United States on the path to becoming a world power and served as a training ground for the Civil War
What were the impacts of the American victory of the US-Mexican War?
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The discovery of gold in California
____________________ became the biggest draw of the West?
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Lawlessness, the predictable failure of most fortune seekers, and racial conflicts
_____________________________ threatened the idea of manifest destiny
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The U.S. government sought to keep European countries out of the Western Hemisphere and applied the principles of manifest destiny to the rest of the hemisphere
Why did the government expand the "jurisdiction" of manifest destiny?
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The fears of racialized revolution in Cuba, as well as the presence of an aggressive British abolitionist influence in the Caribbean
What drove the effort to annex Cuba?
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They wanted access to valuable farmland
Why did the government stop trying to assimilate Native Americans and instead start to forcibly remove them?
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Manifest destiny
_______________________ was quasi-religious call to spread democracy, grounded in the belief that a democratic, agrarian republic would save the world
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