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Manifest Destiny
19th Century doctrine that westward expansion of the United States was not the only inevitable -
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Harriet Tubman
She had found the underground railroad and was trying to free slacves. -
Monroe Doctrine
Foreign policy doctrine set forth by President Monroe in 1823 that dicouraged European intervention in the Western Hemisphere. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew served as the United States seventh president. He was a military governer. -
Trail of Tears
Indians where forced off there land -
Battle of the Alamo
Was a war for Texas's independence -
Wilmot Proviso
Proposed, but rejected, 1846 bill that would have banned slavery in the terrtitory won from Mexico in the Mexican War. -
California Gold Rush
Mass migrate to California after the discovery of gold being found in minds. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War. -
Compromise of 1850
Political agreement that allowed california to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law. -
Underground Railroad
System that existed before the civil war, in which black and white abolistionists helped escaped slaves travel to safe areas, especially Canada. -
Uncle Tom's cabin
It was a book about slavery published in 1852 -
Gadsden Purchase
A settlement was made between the two countries known as the Gadsden Purchase, but diplomatic tension followed. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854 Law that divided the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska Territory giving each territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery. -
Abraham Lincoln
served as the 16th President of the United States and was assasend in April of 1865 -
Gettysburgh Address
Speech by President Lincoln in which he dedicated a national cemetery at the Union was fighting. -
Battle of Gettysburgh
Battle in 1863 in which confederate troops were prevented from invading the North and which resulted in more that 50,000 casulties. -
Emancipation Proclamation
decree by President Lincoln that freed enslaved people liviing in Confederate staes still in rebellion -
Battle of Gettysburg
Confederate troops were prevented from invalidating the north and and which resulted in more than 50,000 casualties. -
Reconstruction
progam implimented by by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the south caused by the civil war. -
Thirteenth Amendment
1865 constituional amendment that abolished slavery -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew served as the U.S. 17th president. He was president from 1865-1869. -
Ku Klux Klan
organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups -
Fourteenth Amendment
1868 constitutional amendment which defined citizenship and guarneeted citizens equal protection under the law. -
Fifteenth Amendment
constitutional amendments that guaorneteed voting rights regardless of race or previous conditions of being a servant.
