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Louisiana Purchase
The United States agrees to pay France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory, which is west from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains making the U.S. nearly doubles in size. -
Congress Declares War on England
With the annoyance of great britain controlling the americas and got going along with the point of westward expansion. They declared ar but the did not work the way intended. -
Missouri Compromise
In an effort to maintain the balance between free and slave states, Maine is admitted as a free state so that Missouri can be admitted as a slave state. -
Monroe Doctrine
Made a message to congress warning European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. With having main points of separating spheres of influence for the Americas and Europe, non-colonization, and non-intervention. -
Indian Removal Act
President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, which authorizes the forced removal of Native Americans living in the eastern part of the country to lands west of the Mississippi River. -
Civil War Begins
Confederate troops fired on fort in south carolina's charleston harbor, Thus marking the start of the american civil war. With the causes of slavery, state's rights, and westward expansion. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation is issued, freeing slaves in the Confederate states. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
End of Civil War
General Robert E. Lee, commander in chief of Confederate forces, surrenders his army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, ending the four years of Civil War conflict. -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's Speech at Gettysburg was done in order to address the war that was occurring. As a remberance to the fallen soldiers a new national cemetery at Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The address was also about what they fough for examples like our freedom. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Washington, DC, during a play and is succeeded by his vice president, Andrew Johnson.