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Whiskey Rebellion
Thousands of farmers in western Pennsylvania took up arms in opposition to the enforcement of a federal law calling for the imposition of taxes.Which represent the largest organized resistance against the federal authority between the American Revolution and Civil War. -
Jay's Treaty
The American statesman John Jay, pressed into service as special envoy, went to England to negotiate disagreements between the two governments. On November 19, 1794 Jay's Treaty was signed, averting the threat of war. The Treaty eliminated British control of western posts within two years, Among John Jay's many accomplishments president of Congress in 1778, minister to Spain, one of three Americans who negotiated the Paris Peace Treaty, an author of The Federalist and the first chief justice. -
Pickney's Treaty
Spanish and the U.S. negotiators concluded the treaty of San Lorenzo or, Pickney's Treaty. The treaty was very succesful. It granted the american ships to freely roam the Mississippi River and free transport through the port of New Orleans, then under spanish control. It encouraged American settlers to continue the westward expansion, and made frontier areas more attractive. -
Farewell Address
Washington's Farewell Address to the Nation appears in its entirety in this issue of the independent chronicle.Even though his speech was good it wasnt never heard orally by Washington. The first place it was seen at was in the Phily newspaper, which was published a week later in the chronicle. -
Election of 1800
The election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.Each side believed that victory by the other would ruin the nation.Federalists attacked Jefferson calling him an unchristian deist.But on the other side the democratic republicans denounced it strong centralization of federal power under Adams presidency.U.S. army and navy, the attack on individual rights in the Alien and Sedition Acts, and new taxes and deficit spending.The election's outcome brought a dramatic victory for Democratic Republic -
Louisiana Purchase
United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississppi River, They bought this land for 15 million dollars. United states doubled in size and expanded the nation westward -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
They started upstream on the Missouri River from thier St. Louisarea camp the been preparing since 1803 on May 20. There journey began making its way up the Missouri aboard a 55ft long keelboat and 2 smaller.Lewis was usaully studying rock on shores, soils, animals and plants on there journey.Lewis and Clark made camp on river islands whenever possible and one stood guard for indians at night. By the end of July they had traveled more than 600 miles up the river.They still aint meet a indian. -
Steamboat Invented
Robert Fulton did not create the steamboat but he was the first to auccessfully return the US. He took a steamboat and made some improvements, allowing him to test run his steamboat. -
Telegraph Invented
First practical telegraph was made in 1809 and was invented by Samuel Soemmering. Used gold wires to send messages between two people at a far distance. -
Start of War of 1812
Baltimore Riots start against anti-war Federalists,Madison's recommendation to Congress to declare war over sailor's rights and British support of western frontier tribes.House of representatives pass war bill.U.S.American attack and capture village of Gananoque in the Thousand Islands area,
US attacks the outlying fortifications of Fort Erie,
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Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was the last major battle of the War of 1812,7,500 british soldiers marched aganist 4,500 U.S troops led by Andrew Jackson,and it only took 30mins to win.The Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war,it been signed 2 weeks before the battle. many of them expert marksmen from Kentucky and Tennessee, decimated the British lines. In half an hour, the British had retreated, General hoping that by capturing the city they could separate Louisiana from the rest of the United State -
Treaty of Ghent
On December 24, 1814, The Treaty of Ghent was signed by British and American representatives at Ghent, Belgium, ending the War of 1812. By terms of the treaty, all conquered territory was to be returned, and commissions were planned to settle the boundary of the United States and Canada. -
Trail Of Tears
At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida.But at the end of the decade not that many Native Americans live on Southeastern United States.white men that wanted to grow cotton on indian land the goverment made them walk miles on the indians territory across the mississippi river to do that. -
Adams Onis Treaty
The Adams OnisTreaty was negotiated in response to Andrew Jackson’s incursion into Florida to stop the raids of the Seminole Indians on U.S. settlements along the border. the treaty granted to the United States Florida and former Spanish territory west of the Sabine River, along a new boundary line north of Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and California. -
Monroe Doctrine
Was little known by the Great powers of europe but eventually known for becoming a longstanding tenet of U.S foreign policy.The bilateral statement proposed by the British thereby became a unilateral declaration by the United States. As Monroe stated: "The American continents … -
Election of 1824
The 1824 presidential election marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political. For the first time no candidate ran as a Federalist, 5 significant candidates were known as democractic republicans.The official candidate of the Democratic Republicans to replace Monroe was William H. Crawford, the secretary of the treasury.The winner was Andrew Jackson, He was followed by John Quincy Adams, the son of the second president and Monroe' secretary of state, who secured 84 votes. -
"54-40 or Fight"
James K. Polk called for an expansion that included Texas, California and all of the Oregon territory. The northern boundary of Oregon was the latitude of 54 degrees and 40 minutes. -
Annexation of Texas
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California Gold Rush
In 1848, James Marshall found gold. It wasn't until 1849 when people started realizing and millions of people arrived in California to find gold. -
Gadsden Purchase
Agreement to buy a strip of land in southern United States so that a railroad line could be built to the Gulf of California
