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Louisiana Purchase
United States agrees to pay France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory, which extends west from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and comprises about 830,000 sq mi.
As a result, the U.S. nearly doubles in size. -
Steamboat
Robert Fulton invented the steamboat.
Helped the transportation. -
War of 1812
It brought back free trade in the U.S. and ended impressment.
U.S. and Great Britain. -
Indian Removal Act
This act allowed Indians to live only where congress approved, the eastern part of the country to lands west of the Mississippi River.
President Jackson. -
Nat Turner
An enslaved African American preacher, leads the most significant slave uprising in American history.
He and his band of about 80 followers launch a bloody, day-long rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia.
Virginia institutes much stricter slave laws. -
Mexican War
U.S. declares war on Mexico in effort to gain California and other territory in Southwest.
Ended with Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Mexico recognizes Rio Grande as new boundary with Texas and, for $15 million, agrees to cede territory comprising present-day California, Nevada, Utah, most of New Mexico and Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. -
First Woman's Rights Convention
It is the start of the long battle women fought to get where they are today with civil rights. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was elected as president. -
Civil War
Between Union (north) and the Confederate States (south).
US being brought back together as one nation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Gave freedom to slaves.
Issued by president Lincoln. -
President Lincoln's Assassination
President Lincoln was assassinated while at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
The first president assassination in American history. -
Telephone
The first telephone was invented by Alexander G. Bell.
