Social Studies 14/2
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- Monroe Doctrine
- A declaration of the US foreign policy made by president James Monroe in 1812 that opposed European colonization or interference in the Wstern Hemisphere
- peoneer
- a person who leads the way usually to make a new home and become a settler there
- Indian Removal Act
- a law passed by Congress in 1830 forcing Native Americans of the SE to move to waht is now Oklahoma
- War 1812
- WAr between the US and Great Britian from 1812 to 1815
- battle of new orleans
- a u.s. victory over british forces in the last battle of the war of 1812
- neutral
- not taking sides
- Lousiana Purchase
- the territory purchased by the US from france in 1803, reaching from the Mississippi river to the Rocky Mt. and from the Gulf of Mex to Canada
- national anthem
- the country's offical song such as the star spangled banner
- War Hawks
- members of congress from the outh and the west inthe early 1800s who wanted the US to go to war with Great Britian
- trail of Tears
- the name given in the 800 mile forced march of 15000 Cherockee in 1883 from their homes in Georgia to the indean territory
- Era of Good Fellings
- the name given to the period of peace and prosperity that follow the war of 1812