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| self-appointed law enforcer |
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| a selttler who accquired free land offered by the government |
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| the mormon practice of being involved in more than 1 woman |
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| A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by attrition or assault. The term derives from sedere, Latinfor "to sit" |
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| Manifest Destiny was the belief widely held by Americans in the 19th century that the United States was destined to expand across the continent. |
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| The Monroe Doctrine is a policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations tocolonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention |
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| A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. |
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| Domestic policy is the set of laws and regulations that a government establishes within a nation's borders. It differs from foreign policy, which refers to the ways a government advances its interests in world politics. |
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The Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, more commonly known as the Northwest Territory, was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 13, 1787, until March 1, 1803, when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Ohio.
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| The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress on May 20, 1785. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation of the inhabitants of the United States. |
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| The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. |
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| New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire,Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. New England is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada (theCanadian Maritimes and Quebec) and the state of New York. |
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| Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families. |
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to yield or grant typically by treaty
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| Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiberand labor. |
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| a person who invests in a risky venture in the hope of making a large profit |
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| farm crop that is grown to be sold |
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| quantity tht is left over |
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| a large estate farmed by many workers |
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| In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. |
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| A raw material or feedstock is the basic material from which a product is manufactured or made, frequently used with an extended meaning.[1]For example, the term is used to denote material that came from nature and is in an unprocessed or minimally processed state. Latex, iron ore,logs, and crude oil, would be examples. The use of raw material by non-human species includes twigs and found objects as used by birds to make nests. |
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| Triangular trade, or triangle trade, is a historical term indicating (trade) among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. Triangular trade thus provides a method for rectifying trade imbalances between the above regions. |
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| The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819,[1] also known as the Transcontinental Treaty or the Purchase of Florida,[2] was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain (now Mexico). |
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| Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 515 (1832), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction ofSamuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Indians from being present on Indian lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional. |
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| On May 28, 1830 The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. While Native American removal was, in theory, supposed to be voluntary, in practice great pressure was put on Native American leaders to sign removal treaties. Most observers, whether they were in favor of the Indian removal policy or not, realized that the passage of the act meant the inevitable removal of most Indians from the states. |
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| The Trail of Tears is a name given to the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of theUnited States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. |
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| Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. |
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| A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, not connected to the open sea. |
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| An expedition typically refers to a long journey or voyage undertaken for a specific purpose, often exploratory, scientific, geographic,military or political in nature. |
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