American History 1 Group 1

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  1. 4. gin a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation
  2. 5. Annexation the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845.
  3. 6. of 1816 the first tariff passed by Congress with an explicit function of protecting U.S. manufactured items from overseas competition
  4. 8. Purchase An agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
  5. 9. Austin Known as the "Father of Texas" and the founder of Texas, led the second, and ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States to the region in 1825.
  6. 11. Quincy Adams an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.
  7. 13. of tears a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government
  8. 15. American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848
  9. 18. Compromise United States federal legislation that admitted Maine to the United States as a free state
  10. 19. of Guadalupe-Hidalgo signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico
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  1. 1. bargain” the U.S. presidential election of 1824, the Compromise of 1877, and Gerald Ford's 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon
  2. 2. v Georgia a landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional
  3. 3. K Polk the 11th president of the United States, known for his territorial expansion of the nation chiefly through the Mexican-American War.
  4. 7. treaty was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.
  5. 10. of 1844 the 15th presidential election, held from Friday, November 1 to Wednesday, December 4, 1844. Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest turning on the controversial issues of slavery and the annexation of the Republic of Texas.
  6. 12. Trail a roughly 2,000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, which was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west
  7. 14. proviso designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War
  8. 16. witney an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
  9. 17. Jackson an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837