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Manifest Destiny
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Underground railroad
A secret network of conducts hide run away slaves in farm wagons and on river boats then moved them to destinations in the North or Canada. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
fedral fort located in Charleston, South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil war were fired -
Monroe Doctrine
doctrine that was declaired in 1823 but had more imporant meaning in the 19th centry when the United States began to interven militarily in the caroban and central america. -
Andrew Jackson
mitary figure and 7th president. Known as old hicktory.Fought the battle of New oraleans.Demoratic and eraged congress to pass the indian removal act of 1830. Known as the peoples persident who presented himself as a down to earth man.He was known as the expanded asemble the american democericey. -
Manifest Destiny
19 centry doctrine. -
Ku Klux Klan
Organization that promotes hatered and discrimination against pasifice ethnic and religiish groups. -
Battle of the Alamo
A former mission in San Antonio. -
Trail of Tears
force to march of the Cherokee Indians to move West of the Mississippi in the 1830's -
Wilmot Proviso
Proposed but rejected bill that would have band slavry in the taratory one from Mexico and the Mexican war -
California Gold Rush
1847 started a gold rtush in califonia.By 1849 about 80 thousand americans were headed to california in mass migration. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel from a slaves life.After Harriet Beecherstowe escaped from slavry then wrote this novel. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Americans bought this land to facilitate building a railroad across the contint. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Law that divied the newbraska territory into kanasas and Newbraska giving each territory the right to decde weather or not to allowe slavry. -
Abraham Lincoln
16th President. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Fedral fort located in Charleston South Carolina where the first shots of the civral war was fired. -
Battle of Bull Run
Two major battles took place at bull run, a creck in virgiana. Both were confredrent vitories. -
Battle of Shiloh
One of the deadlessist battles in americas history. -
Gettysburg Address
A speach by president Lincoln in which he dedicated a notional semantary at Gettysburg and referended the ideas for which the union was fighting. -
Battle of Gettysburg
battle in 1863 battle in which confrederate troops where pervited from invating the North in which restorted in more than 50000 casualties. -
Thirteenth ammendment
Constitutional amment abolished slavry. -
Andrew Johnson
Vice president to Lincoln later president. -
Fourteenth Ammendment
Constitutional Ammendment which diffened citzenship and guaranteed citezen egual protection under the law. -
Fifteenth Ammendment
Contitutional ammendment that arteed voting rights the regardless of reats or previcus condiction of serivitude. -
Reconstruction (end)
reconstruction program that implemented by the Fedral government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the South caused by the cival war and restores the southern states to the union. -
Harriet Tubman
ecapted slave who was known as one of the most coragest conducters on the under ground railroad she became known as black mosses because she lead her people out of bondage. Southern planters placed a large reward over her head but she was never captured.
