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  • Louisiana Purchase

    the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska

  • Missouri Compromise

    By 1819, the original 13 states became 22. 11 free 11 slave. The new state of Missiouri would once again tilt the balance of slave vs free territories. In order to once again achieve equality, the state of Maine was created and slavery was forbidden in the Louisiana purchase land; north of latitude 36'30.

  • Texan Independence from Mexico

  • Texas joins USA

  • James K Polk Elected (Democrat)

  • Mexican War

  • Wilmot Proviso & Calhoun Doctrine

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • 1848 Elections; Zachary Taylor Victory (Whig)