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Mayflower Compact

it was the first document to establish self-government in the New World.

Middle Colonies

served as important distribution centers in the English mercantile system.

Monroe Doctrine (1823)

warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.

Manifest Destiny

was used to justify the forced removal of Native Americans and other groups from their homes.

Missouri Compromise

maintained a delicate balance between free and slave states.

Manifest Destiny (what was)

the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America.

Mercantilism

an economic theory that advocates government regulation of international trade to generate wealth and strengthen national power. It increase a country's wealth through its exports.

Manhattan Project

U.S. government research project that produced the first atomic bomb. It not only helped bring an end to the Second World War but ushered in the atomic age and determined how the next war, the Cold War, would be fought.

Bootlegging was

Making money on illegal selling of alcohol