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| Panic of 1837 | a financial crisis in the United States
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| 2nd Great Awakening | was a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States
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| Transcendentalism | idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism.
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| Henry David Thoreua | an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist.
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| Seneca Fall Convection | the first women's rights convention.
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| Abolitionists | a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution
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| Horace Mann | An American politician
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| Utopian Communities | to create an ideal society, and imagined societies portrayed in fiction.
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| Mormons | a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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| Manifest Destiny | 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents
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| James K Polk | the 11th President of the United States. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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| The Alamo | a place in Texas where there was a battle between a small group of U.S. soldiers and a large Mexican army
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| Texas | the battle of Gonzales in October 1835 and ended with the battle of San Jacinto, Texas on April 21, 1836
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| Mexican American War | A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848
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| Oregon Trail | a 2,200-mile historic east-west large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
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| Gadsden Purchase | a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853
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| Wilmot Proviso | the major events leading to the American Civil War
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| California Gold Rush | gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
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| San Francisco | the California Gold Rush in San Francisco
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| Compromise of 1850 | A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it
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| Underground Railroad |
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