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louisiana purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars. -
Erie Canal
The Canal was authorized by Legislative Vote,construction begun at once. Completed in 1825, The Canal opened shipping lanes from the east coast to the Great Lakes. -
U.S. acquires Florida from Spain
The United States acquired Florida through the treaty that was signed between the Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and the US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in 1819. At the same time, the United States recognized Spanish sovereignty over Texas. -
James Monroe
James Monroe was elected President of the United States. Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, the third of them to die on Independence Day, -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was elected President of the United States. He served as American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States. Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and the British at the Battle of New Orleans -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson reelected. -
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was elected President of the United States. Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, both under Andrew Jackson -
Trail of Tears
At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida -
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was electedPresident of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office.
