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  1. 2. conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
  2. 3. blank Destiney, the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
  3. 7. The Reconstruction Amendments, or the blank, are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870.
  4. 9. acquisition of the territory of Louisiana
  5. 12. blank of 1850, The acts called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
  6. 14. The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan in recent decades, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans.
  7. 15. blank convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".
  8. 16. blank revolution In the 1820s and 1830s, a market revolution was transforming American business and global trade. Factories and mass production increasingly displaced independent artisans.
  9. 17. Blank Rebellion, was historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.
  10. 18. Act of 1854 was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, passed by the 33rd United States Congress, and signed into law by President Franklin Pierce.
  11. 19. Jacksonian blank was a 19th century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, and restructured a number of federal institutions.
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  1. 1. phrase frequently used by Southern politicians and authors prior to the American Civil War, indicating the economic and political importance of cotton production
  2. 2. United States foreign policy position
  3. 4. forced displacement of tribes
  4. 5. the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight
  5. 6. blank system of manufacturing that began in the 18th century and is based on the concentration of industry into specialized—and often large—establishments
  6. 8. restricted black people's right to own property
  7. 10. vetoed legislation that Congress passed to protect the rights of those who had been freed from slavery. This clash culminated in the House of Representatives voting, on February 24, 1868, to impeach the president.
  8. 11. bank war was the political struggle that ensued over the fate of the Second Bank of the United States during the presidency of Andrew Jackson.
  9. 13. required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state