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Andrerw Jackson
born March 15, 1767 and died June 8, 1845, he was the 7th president of the United States, (1829-1837) -
Abraham lincoln
Lived from Febuary 12, 1809 to April 15, 1865, created the hebeas corpus, and stopped most slavery, and caused the civil war -
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manifest destiny
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Monroe Doctrine
FOREIGN POLICY DOCTRINE SET FORTH BY PRESIDENT MONROE IN 1823 THAT DISCOURAGED EUROPEAN INTERVINTION IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. -
Trail of Tears
forced march of the chereokee indians to move west of Mississippi in the 1830s -
Wilmont proviso
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california gold rush
Mass migration to california after the discovery of gold in 1848. -
underground railroad
system that exsisted before the civil war in which back and white abolishonists helped escaped slaves travel to safe places espeacially canada -
Compromise of 1850
political agreement that allowed californinia to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugative slave law -
Gadsden Purchaase
strip of land purchased in 1853 -
Kansas-Nebraska act
it allowed people in the Kansas and nebraska territorries, to decide whether or not to decide themselves to allow slavery or not -
Dred scott vs. sanford
supreme court ruling stating that slaves were not citizens congress had no juristiction over slavery in the territories and the missouri compromise was unconstitutional. -
Lincoln Douglas- Debates
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Battle of Bull Run
the first battle of American civil war, fought in virginia near washington D.C. -
Battle Of Shiloh
Also known as the Battle Of Pittsburg.... It was a major battle in he western theatre of the american civil war fought in April 6-7 1862 in southwestern Tennesee -
13 amendment
1865 constitutional amendment that abolishened slavery -
Emancipation proclimation
decree by president lincoln that freed enslaved people living in confederate states still in rebellion. -
battle of gettysburg
fought on july 1-3 1863 -
Gettysburg address
speech by president lincoln in which he dedicated a national cemetary at gettysburg reaffirmed the ideas of which the union was fighting -
Reconstruction
program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the south caused by the civil war and restore the southern states to the union. -
Klu Klux Klan
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14 amendnent
1868 constitutional amendment amendment witch defined citenzenship and guarenteed citizens equal protection under law -
attack on fort sumter
1868 constitutional amendment which defined citizenship and guarenteed citizenz equal protection under law -
15 amendment
1870 constitutional amendment that guarenteed voting rights reguardless of race or previous condition of servitude -
Klu Klux Klan
Organization that promotes hatred discriminationagainst specific ethnic and religous groups
