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- 3. The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System
- 5. The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States
- 10. politician that stood for the wants of the west
- 12. John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States
- 13. the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters
- 15. the first federal highway
- 17. William Henry Harrison Sr. was an American military officer, a principal contributor in the War of 1812, and the ninth President of the United States
- 21. append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document
- 22. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
- 25. The route over which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California
- 26. law that authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands
- 27. an American soldier and politician
- 28. The Mexican Cession is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- 29. The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America
- 30. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government
- 31. Brigham Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, politician, and a settler in the Western United States
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- 1. the right to vote in political elections
- 2. The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853
- 4. an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina that stood for the wants of the south
- 6. the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo
- 7. The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States
- 8. an American statesman who served as a diplomat, minister and ambassador to foreign nations, and treaty negotiator
- 9. the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution
- 11. A mountain man is a male trapper and explorer who lives in the wilderness
- 14. an American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United States
- 16. Alamo is defined as a mission in San Antonio, Texas that was used as a fort during the Texas revolution
- 18. The Nullification Crisis was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832-33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government
- 19. give up (power or territory)
- 20. a prospector in the California gold rush of 1849
- 23. Stephen Fuller Austin was an American empresario
- 24. James Knox Polk was an American politician who served as the 11th President of the United States