Major Themes

1. Emancipation Proclamation

1.1. 1863

1.2. Third year into the Civil War

1.3. "all persons held as slaves within any State…rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"

2. Andrew Jackson

2.1. Indian Removal

2.2. districts the Indians are removed at the expense of the United States

2.2.1. clothing, arms, ammunition, and other indispensable articl

3. Manifest Destiny

3.1. 19th Century

3.2. expansion of america

3.3. was the destiny that the United States of America would expand coast to coast

3.4. native american removal in the west

4. 1776-1886

4.1. 1846-1848, Mexican american war

4.1.1. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

4.1.2. Signed in 1848, this ended the war

4.1.3. the treaty gave America 525,000 square miles, present day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming

4.2. 1840, 4,500,000 had crossed the Appalachian Mountains into the Mississippi Valley

4.3. In 1844, fewer than 30,000 indians were left east of the Mississippi