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Abraham Lincoln
lincoln grew up on kentucky frontier and moved to Illinois as a young man. -
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manfiest destiny
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Andrew Jackson
became a symbol of expanding American democracy. -
Monroe Doctrine
foreign policy doctrine set fourth by presdient monroe in 1823 that discouraged european intervention in the western hemisphere. -
trails of tears
forced march of the cherokee indians to move west of the mississippi in the 1830's -
manifest destiny
19th century doctrine that westward expansion of the untied states was not only inevitable but a god-given right [1840]. -
wilmot proviso
called for a ban on slavery in any appropriations bill. -
California Gold Rush
mass migration to california after the discovery of gold in 1848. -
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
treaty ending the mexican-American war. -
Compromise of 1850
california was admiteed as a free state , but in the other territory acquired from mexico, voters would decide the slavery issue for themselves. -
Underground Railroad
system that existed before the civil war,in which black and white abolitionistds helped escaped slaves travel to safe areas,especially Canada -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
law that divided the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and nebraska giving each territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery. -
Battle of Gettysburg
confederate troops were prevented from iading the north and which resulted in more than 50,000 casualties. -
Gettysburrg Address
speech by president lincoln in which he dedictaed a national cemetery at Gettysburg and reaffirmed the ideas for which the union was fighting. -
Emancipation Proclamation
decree by president lincoln that freed enslaved people living in conferate states still in rebellion. -
Andrew Johnson
vice president -
thirthteenth amendment
amendment that abolished slavery. -
reconstruction
repair damage to the south caused by the civil war and restore the southern states to the union. -
fourteenth amendment
constitutional amendment which defined citizenship and guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law. -
Fifthteenth amendment
constitutional amendment guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude. -
Ku Klux Klan
organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups.
