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Manifest Destiny
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet was born as a slave. At age 6, she began to work as a house servant. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is a united states policy. It stated further efforts by European countries to colinize the land to interfear with the states. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abe Lincoln was the 16th president of the U.S. He was elected legislature and denounced slavery. -
Battle of the Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo took place in San Antonio Texas. All but two Texans were killed. -
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears is a journy that the Cherokee people walked, There were 10 million Native Americans walked. -
Manifest Destiny
The Manifest Destiny is a policy of imperialisim rationized as inevitable. Manifest Destiny is a term that was used in the 19th century, -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew was born on March 15, !767, and died on June 8th 1845. He was the 7th president. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty ensured safety of existing property rights of Mexican citizens living in the transferred territories.The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish) is the peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States (U.S.)[ -
California Gold Rush
Sailing to California started the Gold Rush. The gold seekers were called the 49ers. -
Compromise of 1850
Intricate package of 5 bills, passed in September. It made the slave states free states. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Toms Cabin, was published as a book and made into a movie. It was the best selling novel of 1852. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It created new territories for Kansas and Nebraska. It also repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. -
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. -
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan used violence, lynching, murder, and acts of intimidation. They killed African Americans. -
Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run is also known as rhe First Battle of Manassas. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The attack took place in April 12-13 1861. It was near Charleston South Carolina. -
Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh is also known as The Battle of Pittsburg Landing. The Confederates achieved considerable success on the first day, but were ultimately defeated on the second day. -
Battle of Gettysburg
It took place in Gettyburg Pennsylvania. It was the turning point of the Civil War. -
Gettysburg Address
Abe Lincolns most famous speech. He called it a Monumential Act. -
Emancipation Proclamation
issued September 22, 1862, declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. The proclamation did not name the slave-holding border states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, or Delaware -
Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. All states were free states. -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew was impeached in 1868. He was the 17th president. -
Fourteenth Amendment
One of the reconstiction amendments. it is a great legacy of the Republician Party. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad, was a secret route for Africian American slaves to escape. Herriet Tubman was the founder of the Underground Railroad -
Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits each Government the right to deny the citizen the right to vote. It was ratified on Feb. 3, 1870
