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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in north America that the united states purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.
-Thomas Jefferson accepted the deal.
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Lewis and Clark expedition
This expedition included Lewis and Clark. This was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase.
Significance - They mapped uncharted land , rivers , and mountains. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 began with the United states formally declaring war on the United Kingdom. The war lasted for the time span of 2 years and 8 months. The two leading causes of the war were the British Orders-in-Council, which limited American trade with Europe. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed by the U.S. Congress in 1820. It allowed Missouri to become the 24th state in the United States. It also began the conflict over the spread of slavery that led to the American Civil War. In the early 1800s Missouri was still a territory. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest. -
Oregon trail and territory
The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. -
Indian removal act
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny was a cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that White American settlers were destined to expand across North America, often at the expense of Native Americans. -
Mexican-American war
Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. They then laid siege to Fort Texas along the Rio Grande. This was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory. -
California gold rush
The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen countries to form a multi-ethnic society on America's fringe. -
The compromise of 1850
The acts called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. -
Home stead act
the Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land.