History Timeline

  • Louisiana Purchase

    The Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States purchased roughly 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France. Which was known as Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border.
  • War of 1812

    The War of 1812 was a military clash, that lasted for two-and-a-half years, which was fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and its North American colonies, and its American Indian allies
  • Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise was a federal bill in the United States that adjusted slavery in the country's western territories.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. outside strategy with respect to European nations in 1823. It expressed that further endeavors by European countries to colonize arrive or meddle with states in North or South America would be seen as demonstrations of animosity, obliging U.S. mediation.
  • Indian Removal Act

    The Indian Removal Act was gone by Congress on May 28, 1830, amid the administration of Andrew Jackson. The law approved the president to arrange with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their evacuation to government domain west of the Mississippi River in return for their hereditary countries.
  • Mexican American War

    The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) denoted the first U.S. equipped clash primarily battled on remote soil. It set a politically separated and militarily ill-equipped Mexico against the expansionist-minded organization of U.S. President James K. Polk, who accepted the United States had a "show fate" to spread over the landmass to the Pacific Ocean. An outskirt conflict along the Rio Grande began off the battling and was trailed by a progression of U.S. triumphs. At the point when the dust clear
  • Gold Rush

    The disclosure of gold chunks in the Sacramento Valley in mid 1848 started the Gold Rush, seemingly a standout amongst the most noteworthy occasions to shape American history amid the first a large portion of the 19th century. As news spread of the disclosure, a great many planned gold diggers went via ocean or over area to San Francisco and the encompassing region; before the end of 1849, the non-local populace of the California domain was approximately 100,000 (contrasted and the pre-1848 figu
  • Compromise of 1850

    Congressperson Henry Clay presented a progression of resolutions on January 29, 1850, trying to look for a trade off and turn away an emergency in the middle of North and South. As a component of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was altered and the slave exchange Washington, D.C., was canceled.
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) made the regions of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new grounds for settlement, and had the impact of canceling the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by permitting white male pilgrims in those domains to focus through mainstream sway whether they would permit .