Chapter 10/11
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| Northwest passage | A passage that, if found, would create a quick passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
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| Corps of Discovery | A group of people that included Meriwether Lewis and William Clark that took an expedition out west to discover what was out there.
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| Filibuster | A private, unauthorized military adventurer, when he led three hundred men on an expedition across the Sabine River to take control of Texas.
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| The Tallmadge Amendment | Denouncing slavery as immoral and opposed to the nation's founding principals of equality and liberty.
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| Missouri Compromise | In 1820, Missouri and Maine became a state. Missouri supported slavery and Maine did not.
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| Empresario | Someone who bought settlers to the region in exchange for generous grants of land.
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| Tejanos | Residents of Texas, that got pushed out when people form other slave states pushed them out.
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| Californios | The Mexican residents of California that wanted independence from Mexico.
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| Mexican Cession | A conquest of land west of the Rio Grande. It included states like; California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and part of Colorado.
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| Forty Niners | People who gathered around to create camps in California and realized it wasn't that easy to find gold in California.
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| Liberty Party | Founded in 1840, was a single-issue party, who was veer anti-slavery.
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| Free-Soil Party | Slogan- "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men." They were opposed to the extension of slavery into the territories.
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| Barnburners | Martin Van Buren's anti-slavery supporters.
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| Slave Power | Free soil party believing this far-fetched conspiracy of the slave holding elite to control both domestic policies for their own end.
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| Spoils System | System that rewarded party loyalist.
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| Corrupt Bargain | When Andrew Jackson appointed Henry Clay as Secretary of Sate and John C Calhoun labeled the whole affair the "Corrupt Bargain".
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| The Theory of Nullification | Voiding of unwelcome federal laws, providing wealthy slaveholders, who were a minority in the United States, with an argument for resisting the national government if it acted contrary to their interest.
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| Whig Party | Formed in 1834. Supported the national bank and also made their first national political appearance in the presidential election of 1836.
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| Trail of Tears | The Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Native Americans all walked from Georgia to Oklahoma. Thousands of Native Americans died.
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| Second Party System | A system whereby the older Federalist and Democratic-Republican Parties had been replaced by a new Democrats and Whig Parties.
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