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Treaty of Wanghia with china
Was a diplomatic agreement between the Qing China and the United States, signed on 3 July 1844 in the Kun Iam Temple. -
Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States to the interim government of a
militarily occupied Mexico City, that ended the Mexican-American War. -
California Gold Rush
When gold was discovered by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California. News of the discovery brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. -
Filmore for President
was the 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president. As Zachary Taylor's Vice President, he assumed the presidency after Taylor's death. He was the only president to have been born in a centennial year. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was an intricate package of five bills, passed in
September 1850, defusing a four year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free
states of the North that arose from expectation of territorial expansion of the United States with the
Texas Annexation -
Fugitive Slave Law
All runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters. -
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
It was negotiated in response to attempts to build the Nicaragua Canal, a canal in Nicaragua that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic. -
Pierce
The only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface", sympathized with the south even though he was from the north. he served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. -
Gadsden Purchase
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 American ambassador to Mexico. It was then ratified, with changes, by the U.S. Senate. With final approval action taken by Mexico -
Commodore Perry opens Japan
A United States naval officer, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, negotiated tirelessly for several months with Japanese officials to achieve the goal of opening the doors of trade with Japan. -
Ostend Manifesto
was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused. -
Republican Party
Founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854, it dominated politics nationally for most of the period from 1860 to 1932. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers
in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries. -
Walker becomes president of Nicaragua
he invaded nicaragua 4 times, setting himself up as ruler of the country
first in 1855 and inviting southerners to take up great landholdings from displaced local farmers; after
walker declared the reintroduction of slavery in nicaragua, he was happy to receive both pierce's
commendation for setting up an independent "republic" and the democratic party's endorsement of his
rule; hondurans drove walker out of power in 1857, and was fired by a squad of honduras