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Major Events in 1800- 1820
1801 Thomas Jefferson was elected the third president.
1803 The purchase of the Louisiana
1804 Lewis and Clark expedition
1805 Thomas Jefferson was elected president for his second term
1809 James Madison elected 4th president
1812 The War of 1812 U.S on Britian
1814 The Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson third president of the United States.
Also known for the most significant achievements of his first administration was the purchase of the Louisiana Territory. This purchase doubled the size of the United States. -
Purchase of The Louisiana
President Thomas Jefferson purchase Louisiana Territory from Napolean's France for $15million. At more than 820,000 square miles the acquisition effectively doubled the size of the United States. -
Napoleon Bonaparte the one that sold Lousiana Territory
Napoleon Bonaparte sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States. In 1803, partly as a means to raise funds for future wars, Napoleon sold France’s Louisiana Territory in North America to the newly independent United States for $15 million, a transaction that later became known as the Louisiana Purchase. -
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How the Purchase of Louisian was made
Negotiations moved swiftly, and at the end of April the U.S. envoys agreed to pay $11,250,000 and assume claims of American citizens against France in the amount of $3,750,000. In exchange, the United States acquired the vast domain of Louisiana Territory, some 828,000 square miles of land. The treaty was dated April 30 and signed on May 2. In October, the U.S. Senate ratified the purchase, and in December 1803 France transferred authority over the region to the United States -
The new United States
The United States of America takes title to the Louisiana Purchase, which streches the United States from Canadian border to the mouth of the Mississippi River -
America Expansion
American expansion westward into the new lands began immediately, and in 1804 a territorial government was established. -
The Expedition to Explorer Louisianna
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, Mo., on expedition to exploreLousianna . -
The Election of 4th president James Madison
James Madison was elected 4th president -
The 18th U.S State
On April 30, 1812, exactly nine years after the Louisiana Purchase agreement was made, the first state to be carved from the territory–Louisiana–was admitted into the Union as the 18th U.S. state. -
The War of 1812
War of 1812, armed conflict between the United States and Great Britain, 1812–1815 -
The Star-Spangled Banner
On Sept. 13, 1814, Francis Scott Key visited the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes, who had been captured after the burning of Washington, DC. The release was secured, but Key was detained on ship overnight during the shelling of Fort McHenry, one of the forts defending Baltimore. In the morning, he was so delighted to see the American flag still flying over the fort that he began a poem to commemorate the occasion -
James Monroe 5th president
James Monroe was made the 5th president -
The United States in 1820
This is how the land purchase was divided by the year 1820. -
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After the War
In 1821,Texas was part of Mexico.The land was cheap, so
many Americans settled in Texas. Mexico tried to stop them,
but they still came. Slavery was against Mexican law, but
Americans brought slaves to Texas.1836, Santa Anna took an army to San Antonio to take a fort called the Alamo.After this,
Texans declared independence and formed the Republic of
Texas.The United States and Mexico disagreed on the border
between Texas and Mexico.Mexico signed the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
Mexicans and Texans
With the signing of the Treaty of Cordoba, Mexico is free from Spanish control after 300 years as a Spanish colony and 11 years of revolution.
Mexico gained independence from Spain -
Mexicans and Texans
1823
Mexico passes the General Colonization Law, formally opening Texas to colonization. The hope is to encourage settlement and economic growth in the remote Mexican land of Texas. -
Seeking Answers
Mexican Goverment sent a man to Texas because of the U.S interest in Texas and in his report back to the "MG" Americans living in the Nacogdooches outnumber Mexicans 10-1 and Americans influence is apparent throughout Texas -
The Report Back
The Mexican Goverment doesnt like the anserws that they are brought back so the enacts the law of April 6th ... Which is the law prohibits the immigration of any more Americans into Texas, places taxes on goods coming into Texas from the U.S., prohibits slaves from entering Texas from the U.S., and
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Indian removal
Andrew Jackson had long been an advocate of what he called “Indian removal''.In the winter of 1831, under threat of invasion by the U.S. Army, the Choctaw became the first nation to be expelled from its land altogether By 1840, tens of thousands of Native Americans had been driven off of their land in the southeastern states and forced to move across the Mississippi to Indian territory.Historians estimate that more than 5,000 Cherokee died as a result of the journey. -
Relationships Gone Bad
Betweent 1834-1835 Relations between MG and Texas settlers gone considerably bad.
President Santa Anna abondoned the constitution under which they agrred to live by .
Summer of 1835 President Santa Anna sent a small army to texas to confront the rebellious Texans .
Many settlers unhappy with the direction of Santa Anna's Goverment. -
"COME AND TAKE IT "
Fearing violence coming from the settlers, Mexican military officials attempted to retrieve a cannon that had been given to the town for defense.
The successful resistance of the residents , who flew a flag with a picture of a cannon and the slogan "COME AND TAKE IT" which is traditionally considered the beginning of the Texas Revolution. -
Texas Declaration of Independence
The Texas Declaration of Independence was framed and issued by the Convention of 1836 Washington-on-the-Brazos, now commonly referred to as the “birthplace of Texas.Thisdocument focused on the rights of citizens to “life” and “liberty” with an emphasis on the “property of the citizen.” -
Martin Van Buren
Van Buren received 40,000 more votes than he had in his 1836 victory Van Buren won the presidential election of 1836 by promising to carry on the policies of Andrew Jackson. Unfortunately, Van Buren took office as the booming U.S. economy of the early and mid-1830s began to slow down. The so-called "Panic of 1837" was followed by the worst depression yet faced by the young nation.Facing criticism at home for both the economic depression and his handling of foreign -
Trails of tears
Nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land . Working on behalf of white settlers
, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. Approximately 4,000 die from starvation and disease along the “Trail of Tears.” -
Five Civilized Tribes
In the southeastern United States, many Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek and Cherokee people embraced these customs and became known as the “Five Civilized Tribes.” -
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison is inaugurated as the 9th president, a month later he dies from pneumonia of the lower lobe of the right lung, complicated by congestion of the liver.Thought to be a direct result of a cold.Succeeded in office by his vice president, John Tyler. -
James Polk 11th president
Polk surprised everyone when he campaigned vigorously and won the presidency on November 5, 1844.
Polk wasnt very well known which earned him the title
"dark horse" candidate because he was not expected to beat his opponent, Henry Clay of the Whig Party, to become the 11th president of the United States -
The Annexation of Texas to the United State
In September 1836 Texas
voted overwhelmingly in favor of annexation, but when the Texas minister at Washington, D.C., proposed annexation to the Martin Van Buren administration in August 1837, he was told that the proposition could not be entertained.
Texas withdrew the annexation offer in 1838; President Mirabeau B. Lamar opposed annexation and did
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''Manifest Destiny ''
a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion
the attitude a strong destined to, way of thinking that helped fuel western settlements,Native American removal and war with Mexico.Phrase was first employed by John L. O’Sullivan in an article on the annexation of Texas,which he edited -
Mexican-American war
U.S. Pres. James K. Polk sent John Slidell in secret to Mexico City to negotiate the disputed Texas border.Polk was refused Mexican troops had crossed the Rio Grande on April 25 and attacked Gen. Zachary Taylor’s troops, killing
or injuring 16 of them. In his quickly revised war message delivered to Congress on May 11 Polk claimed that Mexico had “invaded our territory and shed
American blood on American soil.” -
Wilmot Proviso, David Wilmot
Wilmot
he made a proposition that would divide the Congress. introduced legislation in the House that boldly declared,
"neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in lands won in the Mexican-American War -
The Gold Rush 0f 1848,''49ers''
The great California gold rush began on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River while constructing a sawmill for John Sutter, a Sacramento agriculturalist.Gold prospectors where known as 49ers -
Zachary Taylor 12th President
Taylor entered the White House at a time when the issue of slavery and its extension into the new western territories (including Texas) had caused a major rift between the North and South.He died on July 9 of acute gastroenteritis -
Harriet Tubman ESCAPES
Escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective members of the Underground Railroad. Tubman also served as a scout, spy and nurse during the Civil War.
