Unit 5 Vocab - Westward Expansion

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Practice of giving supporters government jobs

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Spoils system

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Secret deal between Adams and Clay in 1824 election.

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Corrupt bargain

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Attach or add on

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Annex

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Declared Tariff of 1832 unconstitutional in South Carolina

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Nullification Act

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Law passed by Congress in 1830 for relocating Native Americans west of the Mississippi.

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Indian Removal Act

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Forced migration of Cherokee and other Native Americans from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River.

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Trail of Tears

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1800s belief in Americans' right to expand across the continent

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Manifest Destiny

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Federal lands for Native Americans

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Reservations

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Route to Oregon Country used by wagon trains in the 1800s

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Oregon Trail

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Route traveled by Latter-day Saints from Illinois to Utah in the mid-1800s for religious freedom.

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Mormon Trail