American History

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  • Stephen Austin establishes a colony in Texas

    Stephen Austin establishes a colony in Texas
    • Stephen Austin is known as the Father of Texas
    • Successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families

  • Mexico places restrictions on American immigration

    Mexico places restrictions on American immigration
    • More territory was open in the Texas territory because there was more land.
    • To the settlers, there was no definite boundary between the U.S. and Mexico

  • Stephen Austin meets with Mexican President Santa Anna

    Stephen Austin meets with Mexican President Santa Anna
    • Austin was the only one of the commissioners that went to Mexico
    • His stay in Mexico was lengthy

  • Battle of the Alamo

    Battle of the Alamo
    • The Alamo served as home to missionaries and their Indian converts for nearly seventy years
    • People worldwide continue to remember the Alamo as a heroic struggle against impossible odds

  • Battle of San Jacinto

    Battle of San Jacinto
    • The decisive battle of the Texas Revolution
    • 630 of the Mexican soldiers were killed and 730 captured, while 9 Texans died

  • U.S. annexes Texas

    U.S. annexes Texas
    • United States of America annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the 28th state
    • Extended the nation's borders all the way to the Pacific Ocean

  • General Taylor marches troops across Rio Grande

    General Taylor marches troops across Rio Grande
    • On May 7 he set out with 2,300 troops and 200 supply wagons to break the siege of Fort Texas
    • The lower Rio Grande Valley had been conceded to the U.S. Army

  • Slidell's Rejection

    Slidell's Rejection
    • John Slidell was an American politician, lawyer and businessman
    • Slidell was sent to Mexico, by President James Knox Polk, to negotiate an agreement whereby the Rio Grande would be the southern border of Texas, but Mexico rejected his misison

  • U.S. declares war on Mexico

    U.S. declares war on Mexico
    • Also known as the First American Intervention, the Mexican War, or the U.S.–Mexican War
    • The United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.

  • Treaty of Velasco grants Texas Independence

    Treaty of Velasco grants Texas Independence
    • The Treaties of Velasco were two documents signed at Velasco, Texas, between Antonio López de Santa Anna of Mexico and the Republic of Texas
    • Provide a conclusion of hostilities between the two belligerents

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends war with Mexico

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends war with Mexico
    • It ended the Mexican-American War
    • ith the defeat of its army and the fall of the capital, Mexico surrendered to the United States and entered into negotiations to end the war.

  • Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, California

    Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, California
    • Gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California
    • Gold-seekers were called "forty-niners"

  • Zachary Taylor elected president

    Zachary Taylor elected president
    • 12th President of the United States
    • Taylor was the last President to hold slaves while in office

  • California applies for statehood

    California applies for statehood
    • California adopted an antislavery state constitution, and applied for admission into the Union as a free state.
    • Formally admitted to the Union as a free state on September 9, 1850.

  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase
    • The region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden
    • The purchase was the last major territorial acquisition in the contiguous United States, adding a large area to the United States.