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lincoln grew up on kentucky frontier and moved to Illinois as a young man.
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became a symbol of expanding American democracy.
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foreign policy doctrine set fourth by presdient monroe in 1823 that discouraged european intervention in the western hemisphere.
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forced march of the cherokee indians to move west of the mississippi in the 1830's
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19th century doctrine that westward expansion of the untied states was not only inevitable but a god-given right [1840].
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called for a ban on slavery in any appropriations bill.
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mass migration to california after the discovery of gold in 1848.
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treaty ending the mexican-American war.
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california was admiteed as a free state , but in the other territory acquired from mexico, voters would decide the slavery issue for themselves.
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system that existed before the civil war,in which black and white abolitionistds helped escaped slaves travel to safe areas,especially Canada
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law that divided the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and nebraska giving each territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
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confederate troops were prevented from iading the north and which resulted in more than 50,000 casualties.
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speech by president lincoln in which he dedictaed a national cemetery at Gettysburg and reaffirmed the ideas for which the union was fighting.
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decree by president lincoln that freed enslaved people living in conferate states still in rebellion.
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vice president
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amendment that abolished slavery.
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repair damage to the south caused by the civil war and restore the southern states to the union.
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constitutional amendment which defined citizenship and guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law.
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constitutional amendment guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude.
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organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups.
