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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman made 19 trips into the Soutn & escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. -
Battle of The Alamo
Fortified former mission in San Antonio was the site of the 1836 defeat -
Trail of Tears
Cherokee was forced to give up there land and migrate to an Oklahoma. -
Wilmot Proviso
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War -
California Gold Rush
Mass migraton to California after the dicovery of gold in 1848 -
Underground Railroad
System that existed before the Civil War, in which black & white abolitionists helped escaped slaves -
Monroe Doctrine
Foreign policy doctrine set forth by President Monroe -
Compromise of 1850
Political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Gadsden Purchase
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Kansas- Nebraska Act
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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Abraham Lincoln
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Attack on Fort Sumter
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Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of Gettysburg
Battle in 1893 in which Conferderate troops were prevented from invading the North -
Battle of Shilon
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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Gettysburg Address
Speech by President Lincoln in which he dedicated a national cemetery at Gettysburg and reaffiremed the ideas for which the union was fighting -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was 17th president of the united states -
Ku Klux Klan
Organisation that promtes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups -
14th Amendment
Amendment which defind citizenship and guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law -
Fifteenth Amendment
amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude -
Thirteenth amendment
1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery. -
Manifest Destiny
19th century doctrine that westward expasion of the United States was only inevitable but a God-given right.
