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American Indian Treaties
1778: Treaty With the Delawares 1782: Chickasaw Peace Treaty Feeler 1784: Treaty With the Six Nations 1785: Treaty With the Wyandot, etc., Treaty With The Cherokee 1786: Treaty With the Chocktaw, Treaty With the Chickasaw, Treaty With the Shawnee 1789: Treaty With the Wyandot, etc., Treaty With the Six Nations -
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American Indian Treaties
1790: Treaty With the Creeks 1791: Treaty With the Cherokee
1794: Treaty With the Cherokee, Treaty With the Six Nations, Treaty With the Oneida, etc. 1795: Treaty of Greenville 1805: Chickasaw Treaty 1816: Treaty With the Chickasaw 1818: "Secret" Journal on Negotiations of the Chickasaw Treaty of 1818, Treaty With the Chickasaw 1826: Refusal of the Chickasaws and Choctaws, to Cede Their Lands in Mississippi 1828: Treaty With The Potawatami 1830: Treaty With the Chickasaw -
Louisiana purchase
The U.S. Purchased the Louisiana (828,000 square miles) from France for 50 million francs, about 2 cents per anchor. -
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Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, who with William Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest in 1804–06. He later served as governor of Upper Louisiana Territory. The Lewis and Clark Expedition spanned 8,000 mi (13,000 km) and three years, taking the Corps of Discovery, as the expedition party was known, down the Ohio River, up the Missouri River, across the Continental Divide, and to the Pacific Ocean. -
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was an armed conflict between the United States and the British Empire. The British restricted the American trade since they feared it was harmful for their war with France and they also wanted to set up an Indian state in the Midwest in order to maintain their influence in the region. That’s why 10,000 Native Americans fought on the side of the British in this war. Since Canada was a British colony back then, Canadians were also British allies. -
The Adams Onis Treaty
The Adams Onis Treaty a territorial settlement and purchase of specific boundries. It was to serve 2 purposes to keep the Seminole Indians from raiding Georgia and to keep Washington from owning Texas. -
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Indian Removal Act
The Cherokees effectively resisted ceding their full territory by creating a new form of tribal government based on the United States government. The Cherokees wrote a constitution. The state of Georgia began pressuring the United States government to force the Cherokee Nation off its lands. the Supreme Court ruled in their favor, but the state of Georgia confiscated Cherokee lands. The Cherokee later had to leave the land, they walked 800 miles. Later this was called the trail of tears. -
The Texas Rebellion Begins
A group of Texan leaders convenes to draw up a provisional government and declare independence from Mexico. Shortly after, fighting breaks out. -
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The Battle Of The Alamo
In December 1835, during Texas’ war for independence from Mexico, a group of Texan volunteer soldiers occupied the Alamo, a former Franciscan mission located near the present-day city of San Antonio. On February 23, 1836, a Mexican force numbering in the thousands and led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began a siege of the fort. Though vastly outnumbered, the Alamo’s 200 defenders–commanded by James Bowie and William Travis. -
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Trail Of Tears
In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died. -
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Mexican - American War
Between 1846 and 1848, two neighbors, the United States and Mexico, went to war. It was a defining event for both nations, transforming a continent and forging a new identity for its peoples. By the war's end, Mexico lost nearly half of its territory, the present American Southwest from Texas to California, and the United States became a continental power. -
Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed by the United States and Mexico on February 2, 1848, ending the Mexican War and extending the boundaries of the United States by over 525,000 square miles. -
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California Gold Rush
he discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area; by the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000 (compared with the pre-1848 figure of less than 1,000). -
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American Indian Treaties
1832: Treaty With the Potawatami 1852: Treaty with the Apache 1853: Treaty with the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache 1865: Treaty with the Cheyenne and Arapaho, Treaty with the Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho 1867: Treaty With the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty -
Gadsen Purchase
Meeting in Mexico City on December 30, 1853, James Gadsden, U.S. Minister to Mexico, and General Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico, signed the Gadsden Purchase. The treaty settled the dispute over the exact location of the Mexican border west of El Paso, Texas, giving the U.S. claim to approximately 29,600 square miles of land in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona, for the price of $10 million. -
Pony Express
The Pony Express was a mail service operating from St. Joseph in Missouri all the way west to Sacramento. Riders rode in relay delivering mail across 2000 miles in 10 days. The Pony Express started in April 3, 1860. with the completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph. Although the Pony Express was only in operation for 18 months the exploits of its brave riders, including William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill". -
Transcontinental Railroad
When the first transcontinental railroad was completed in the spring of 1869, it was celebrated as a marvel of engineering and an invaluable new link between people and places. The outposts of the American West were connected to the population centers back east. People and goods could flow freely and quickly across the continent, as the overland journey had been reduced from one measured in months to one measured in mere days.
