Manifest Destiny Timeline

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase
    French sales Louisiana territory.
  • Santa Fe Trail

    Santa Fe Trail
    19th century transportation route through central North America. Connected Santa Fe, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Oregon Trail

    Oregon Trail
    Route laid by fur trappers and traders. It was only assable on foot or by horseback.
  • Battle of Alamo

    Battle of Alamo
    The arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna's army outside San Antonio nearly caught them by surprise. The defenders held out for 13 days against Santa Anna's army.
  • Battle of San Jacinto

    Battle of San Jacinto
    Fought in present day Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution.
  • Texas annexation

    Texas annexation
    It was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state.
  • Mexican-American War

    Mexican-American War
    it was an armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico.
  • Brigham Young (Mormons

    Brigham Young (Mormons
    He led Mormons to Utah for religious freedom/escaping religious persecution.
  • Treaty of Guadulupe-Hildalgo

    Treaty of Guadulupe-Hildalgo
    Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic
  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase
    it was teritory purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden who was the American ambassador to Mexico at that time.
  • Fort Laramie Treaty

    Fort Laramie Treaty
    It was an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation signed at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana.