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Louisiana Purchase
The United States purchased this large piece of land from the French. It cost the United States roughly 15 million dollars and more than doubled the land mass of the country. Question: When President Thomas Jefferson purchased land from france was that a good thing or a bad thing? Why or why not? -
rail road expantion
Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the industrial revolution in the North-east 1810–50 to the settlement of the West 1850–1890. The American railroad mania began with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828.
Although the South started early to build railways, it concentrated on short lines linking cotton regions to oceanic or river ports, and the absence of an interconnected network was a major handicap during the Civil War. The North and Midwest construct -
rail road
over 80 percent of farms were within 5 miles (8 km) of a railway, facilitating the shipment of grain, hogs and cattle to national and international markets. A large number of short lines were built, but thanks to a fast developing financial system based on Wall Street and oriented to railway bonds, the majority were consolidated into 20 trunk lines by 1890. State and local governments often subsidized lines, but rarely owned them.
The system was largely built by 1910, but then trucks arrived to -
The Seminole War
General Jackson vs. Semminole Indians
Jackson set out with 2,000 men captureing Spanish town and burning Seminole villages within weeks they had the entire western part of Florida in their possesion -
The Seminole War Continued
Spain was not happy with what Jackson did, but some people applauded him. Congress threated tocondem him. They Accuesed Spain of breaking a treaty by failing to control the seminoles. Spain was to poor to argue and wanted somthing for the lost land. Then the agreed to goive Florida to U.S. The U.S and Spain created a treaty called Adams-Onis Treaty. -
The Seminole War
The Adams-Ons treaty fixed the boundary between the Louisianna Purchas and the Spanish territory. U.S agreed to give up claim to he territory which is now the South Western U.S includng part of modern day Texas -
Missouri Compromise(Slavery)
The act prohibited slavery in territories and new states above the 36' 30' latitude line, with the exception of MIssouri, and maintained a balance in the Senate between slave and Free states. -
trail of tears
Started with the Indian Removal Act at the begining of 1830 nearly 125,000 native americans acupied millions of acres of land in georgia,tennessee and alabama ,north carolina and florida. land there ancestors cupied and caltivted for genorations by the end of the decaed very few natives remained in the south eastern united states. worked on behalf of the white settelers Question: Was the indian removal act a good thing or bad thing? Why or why not? -
Gag Rule
A gag rule is a rule that limits or forbids the raising, consideration or discussion of a particular topic by members of a legislative or decision-making body. The reason why they did this because slavery was a strong topic so when the declay with rule, they wouldnt talk about it and mostly care about there work. It ended in 1844 -
Alamo
It started San Antonio, Texas. It was a legacy was within America culture and is one of the few times in hitory that an event is told from the perpective of the vanquishied. It started when the Spain gave Independence from Spain in 1820's. Than a fight for Mexican Independence happened between Texans and Mexicans. The Mexicans won. Question: Was Texas trying to get independence from Mexico a good thing or bad thing? Why or why not? -
Oregon/Cail Trail
2,170 miles Missouri-Oregon and Cali
The trip was until 1869 when 5000,000 people made the trip with covered wagons pulled by mules and oxen.
Some went for the farms and other to find gold there.
THe jounery was 4-6 months
They had to make it at a certain time. If there were too earlier there ould be no grass for animals to eat and if they come too late they would be caught by the winter storms. Many accidents happened during this joruney. It wasnt safe. -
Mexican-American War
The locations was in Texas, New Mexico, California, Northern Central and Eastern Mexico and Mexico City. This was the outcome of the Alamo.
Question: Was going to war a good thing or bad thing? Why or why not? -
End of the War:Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo
It was a decisive American victory. The Treaty of Guadalupe was established after the war. It's a treaty of peace, friendship, limits and settlement between USA and Mexican Republic. The conflict between Mexicans and Texans had ended. The Mexican Cession was formed. It had all of California, Neveda,Utah, most of Arizona and half of New Mexico quarter of Colorado and a small section of Wyoming. -
The gold rush
The gold rush began on january 24 1848 when gold was found by James W. Marshel.The first people who wanted the gold were Americans. Other people came from Latin America,Europe,Australia, and Asia.During the gold rush there were hard times but some people pulled through and found gold . Question: Was finding gold a good thing or a bad thing? Why or why not? -
Compromise of 1850
it was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the south and the free states of the north regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American war -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Introduced by Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas. The act repealed part of the Missouri Compromise that prohibited slavery above the 36' 30' latitude. it sparked violence in Kansas when pro-slavery and anit-slavery settlers fought for control of the territory
