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John Quincy Adams becomes President
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Opening of Erie Canal
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Baltimore and Ohio railroad construction begins
the construction of a railroad connecting Baltimore and Ohio begins to be built -
Andrew Jackson inaugurated as President
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Trail of Tears
Acting under the Indian Romval Act of 1830, the indians were forced off their land and made to walk to reservations in what is now Oklahoma, many Cherokees died during the travel -
Oregon Trail becomes popular for migrating settlers
the 2000 mile trail goes from the Missouri River into the pacific northwest -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act granted President Andrew Jackson the funding and authority to remove the Indians residing east of the Mississippi River -
Worchester v. Georgia
Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that the Cherokees comprised a "domestic dependent nation" within Georgia and thus deserved protection from harassment. -
Arkansas becomes a State
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Beginning of rebellion to Mexican Rule in now Texas
Group of men declare independence from Mexico, fighting breaks out soon after -
Treaty of New Echota
Federal agents persuaded a pro-removal Cherokee chief to sign the Treaty of New Echota, which ceded all Cherokee land for $5.6 million and free transportation west. -
Battle of the Alamo
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Martin Van Buren Inaugurated as President
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Michigan gains Statehood
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William Henry Harrison Inaugurated as President
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John Tyler becomes Presidnet after William Harrison dies only a month after being in office
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John Tyler proposes treaty for the annexation of Texas but is denied by Senate
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James K. Polk Inaugurated as President
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Florida gains Statehood
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Annexation of Texas
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Wilmot Proviso
The 1846 Wilmot Proviso was an attempt by opponents of slavery to prevent its introduction in the territories purchased from Mexico following the Mexican War. The proviso never passed both houses of Congress, but it did ignite an intense national debate over slavery that led to the creation of the antislavery Republican Party in 1854. -
Oregon Treaty of 1846
set the border line between the United States and Canada -
Iowa gains Statehood
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Gold Discovered in California
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Mexican Cession (War with Mexico)
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo cedes Texas, New Mexico, and California to the United States -
Wisconsin gains Statehood
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Gold Rush
Greatest mass migration of the time, popualtion of California went from 13000 to 80000 within the year from people looking to get rich off gold -
Compromise of 1850
Admitted Calfornia as a free state while banning slavery in the District of Columbia, also amended the Fugitive Slave Act -
California admitted into Union
With the compromise of 1850, California is admitted into the Union as a free state -
Gadsden Purchase
Purchase of land near the Mexican border that helped the United States in the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
admitted both states into the Union under idea of popular sovereignty to decide whether free or slave state -
Bleeding Kansas
Slavery was to be decided by popular sovereignty, however both northern and southerners resided and had conflicting views resulting in violence -
Minnesota gains Statehood
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Oregon gains Statehood
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SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Westward Expansion (1807-1912).” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. n.d.. Web. 20 May 2013.
"Wilmot Proviso." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman. 2nd ed. Vol. 10. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 389-390. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 30 May 2013.
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