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American history Westward Expansion Indian Removal Opening of the Far West Texas Settling California, New Mexico, and Oregon Foreign Policy in Texas and Oregon The Mexican War Plains Indians Transcontinental Railroad Admission of Western States

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The Northwest Ordinance opened up vast western land areas to development by the United States, accelerating the country's westward expansion .. exclusion of slavery

Manifest Destiny was a term that came to describe a widespread belief in the middle of the 19th century that the United States had a special mission to expand westward. The specific phrase was originally used in print by a journalist, John L. O'Sullivan, when writing about the proposed annexation of

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