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Treaty Of Paris
Marked the end of the French and Indian war with the French loosing all land in America. This led to British control of North America, and left Britain with a huge war debt. -
Northwest Ordinance
Provided a method of admitting new states to the Union from the territory and listed a Bill of Rights, guaranteed in the territory. In this document equality between new and old states was promised -
Pinckney's Treaty
Resolved territorial disputes between Spain and the United States with the U.S gaining right to New Orleans. As the U.S gained New Orleans it also led to the creation of the Southern Boundary. -
Lousina Purchase
Land deal between the United States and France in which the U.S gainned 827,000 miles of land west of the Mississippi River. The U.S. aquired 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic -
Treaty of Adams-Onis. (Florida Purchase)
United Staes purchases the Flordia area from Spain. It fixed the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase, beginning at the mouth of the Sabine River and running along its south and west bank to the thirty-second parallel and then directly north to the Río Rojo. -
Missouri Compromise
Effort by Congress to defuse rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. Missouri would become a slave state and Maine became a free state in order to keep the balnce betwwen free and slave states. -
Indian Removal Act
It is generally acknowledged that this act spelled the end of Indian Rights to live in those states under their own traditional laws. They were forced to assimilate and concede to US law or leave their homelands. President Jackosn granted the unsettled lands west of the Mississippi River in exchange for Indian lands within exsiting State borders . -
Battle of San Jacinto
Sam Houston surprises Santa Ana along the San Jacinto River, surprised Santa Ana surrenders. Texas gains Independence from Mexico making Sam Houston their first President. -
Ashburton Treaty
British diplomat Lord Ashburton arrived in Washington at the head of a special mission to the United States. The first order of business was settling the border between the United States and Canada. Lord Ashburton of Great Britain agreedto settle the Anglo American disputes over the U.S Canadian boundary. -
Texas Annexed.
U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date. James Polk accepted Texas as a new State, allowing for the expansion of America to continue. -
U.S and Britain Compromise (The Oregon Treaty)
This agreement set up the boundary between U.S and Canada at the 49th parallel west of the Rock Mountains. The states carved out of this treaty are the present states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and the southwest corner of Wyoming. -
Mormans move to Utah
Brigham Young leads the Mormans in searh of the promise land, setteling in Utah, expanding U.S. territories. The Mormons claimed a large area. It stretched from the mountains of Colorado west to the mountains of California; from Arizona north to Oregon. -
Gold Discoverd
James W. Marshall discoverd a gold nugget in the American River while constructing a sawmill in California. Marshall tried to keep his discovery to himself, however this did not work as other soon discovered what lay in California. -
Treay of Guadalupe
This ended the American and Mexican War in favor of the U.S. Mexico gave up all claims to Texas and recoginized the Rio Grande as America's southern bounndary. The U.S. pays 15 million dollars for Texas. -
Gold Rush
After the discovery of gold nuggets 80,000 immigrants poured into California in search of gold. By the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000
