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Whiskey Rebellion
When the US congress passed a federal excise tax of 7 cent per gallon on whiskey in an effort to pay of debts incurred by the Revolutionary War. -
Jay's treaty
was between the US and Great Britian -
Pickney's treaty
Established intentions of friendship between the US and Spain. -
Farewell Address
It was sectionaliism two parties system against-alliances (French-British war) -
election of 1800
between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson -
Trails of Tears
This name was given to the forced relocation and movement of Native Americans. -
Louisiana Purchase
was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs . -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
was the first transcontinental expedition to the Pacific Coast undertaken by the United States. Commissioned by the Thomas Jefferson. -
Steamboat invented
She was called the CLERMONT. Her first historic journey was in 1807, Fulton advertised his boat to the public as THE NORTH RIVER STEAMBOAT. On September 4,1807, the vessel made her first voyage with commercial paying passengers up the NORTH RIVER. -
Telegraph invented
To communicate and send messages -
war of 1812
Military conflict between the United States and the British -
Treaty Of Ghent
Was the peace treaty that ended the war of 1812 between the United States and United Kingdom -
Battle of New Orleans
The battle started in 1815 -
Adams-Onis Treaty
The treaty was named for John Quincy Adams of the United States and Louis de Onís of Spain and renounced any claim of the United States to Texas. It fixed the western boundary of The Louisiana Purchase as beginning at the mouth of the Sabine River and running along its south and west bank to the thirty-second parallel and thence directly north to the Río Rojo (Red River). -
Monroe Doctrine
It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land. -
Election of 1824
John Quincy Adams was elected President. The election was decided by the house of representatives. -
Annexation of Texas
The annexation of Texas to the United States became a topic of political and diplomatic discussion after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and became a matter of international concern between 1836 and 1845, when Texas was a republic. -
“54 – 40 or Fight”
while Americans referred to it as the Oregon Country. The broadest definition of the disputed region was defined by the following: west of the Continental Divide of the Americas, north of the 42nd parallel north (the northern border of New Spain and after 1821 of Mexico), and south of the parallel 54°40′ north (the southern border of Russian America after 1825). -
California Gold Rush
when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.The first to hear confirmed information of the Gold Rush were the people in Oregon, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), and Latin America, who were the first to start flocking to the state in late 1848 -
Gadsden Purchase
The treaty settled the dispute over the exact location of the Mexican border west of El Paso, Texas, giving the U.S. claim to approximately 29,600 square miles of land.
