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Cotton Gin Invented
The modern mechanical cotton gin was invented in the United States of America in 1793 by Eli Whitney (1765–1825). -
X,Y,Z Affair IT BEGAN 1797
political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War. -
Missouri Compromise
was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted -
Lusianna Purchase
the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. a -
Agreement of 49th Parallel
treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States -
Monroe Doctrine
U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent in 1823. -
The Battle of the Alamo
was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. -
Texas Claims Independence
was issued during a revolution against the Mexican government that began in October 1835 following a series of government edicts including dissolution of state legislatures, disarmament of state militias, and abolition of the Constitution of 1824. -
Trail of Tears BEGAN 1838
Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River -
Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears
CONTENTS PRINT CITE
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–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. -
Mexican American War
A war between the U.S. and Mexico spanned the period from spring 1846 to fall 1847. -
Texas annexed to U.S. BEGAN 1845
During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic -
California becomes a state.
In 1849, Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850. California became the 31st state on September 9, 1850. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
