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Proclamation of 1763
Called for a halt to moving beyond the Appalachians. British authorities hoped to keep the colonists tied more closely to English colonial authorities by confining them to the coast. Keeping colonists east of the Appalachians would facilitate the collection of taxes.The Proclamation angered the colonists, who felt they had earned the right to expansion by risking their lives in the new country. They openly defied British rule and rushed westward, creating new settlements, facing new challenges, -
Northwest Territory
Once thriving commerce in tobacco, wheat, timber, and indigo declined greatly as European powers barred American exports to the West Indies and other European ports. Between 1785 and 1786, more than half of the western states yielded to the economic pressures and put more money in circulation. Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, South Carolina and Rhode Island loaned the newly issued money to farmers to cover their mortgages. It was also used to pay off state debt and veterans’ claims. -
Louisiana Purchase
France sold land west of the Mississippi River to United States of America in a treaty commonly known as the Louisiana Purchase.The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the beginning of the Rocky Mountains. -
West and East Florida
Sectional concerns over tariff issues, banking policy, sale of public land, and slavery began to divide the United States into three distinct regions: north, south, and west. Eastern manufacturers, represented by Henry Clay, favored high tariffs that would protect them from foreign competition. Northern constituents, represented by Daniel Webster from New Hampshire, were against the tariff because they feared it would affect their shipping trade and cripple their newly developing manufacturing b -
Red River Basin
The United States signed the Convention of 1818 with Great Britain in order to settle some issues left open by the Treaty of Ghent, which four years earlier had ended the War of 1812. The new treaty stated that Britain and the United States would jointly occupy Oregon Territory (an arrangement that lasted until 1846), and clarified the northern border of the Louisiana Purchase. The land acquired by the United States in the treaty, known as the Red River Basin, would ultimately become part of the -
Oregon Territory
Since 1818 the United States and Great Britain shared the area that they also partially shared with the Indians. Oregon looked promising for eastern farmers during the depression. When the American Society for encouraging the settlement of the Oregon Country was formed by Hall j. Kelly it created interest in the region. Young farm families and gold seekers followed the mountain men all the way to Oregon through the mountains and past the rivers -
Meican Cessation
The present president, James K. Polk, wanted to gain land near the Oregon territory and in modern day New Mexico and California territories. Polk offered the Mexicans over 30 million dollars for the California and New Mexico territories. The Mexicans then said no and Polk had his troops get ready. On may ninth, mexicans had attacked the Americans, congress responded with a declaration of war. The troops were being led by General Winfield Scott and in 1847 mexico city fell to the americans after -
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
During 1841-1843, the primary foreign policy issues involved Great Britain. These included the northeast borders of the United States, the involvement of American citizens in the Canadian rebellion of 1837, and the suppression of the international slave trade. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, resolved these frictions in Anglo-American relations. -
Texas Annexation
During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date. Polk accomplished this through the annexation of Texas in 1845, the negotiation of the Oregon Treaty with Great Britain in 1846, and the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848, which ended with the signing and ratification of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase was the last thing added to the United States. It is made up of present day southern Arizona and southwestern new mexico. The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande. Mainly wanted to help form the transcontinental railroad that would run in the lower south. This would help expand trade opportunities. In the end the territory was bought for ten million dollars but Mexico “balked” at any large scale sale of land. -
Alaska
n 1866 Russia offered to sell the United States Alaska. America paid Russia 7.2 million for alaska. The United States gained almost 600,000 square miles. It took until 1896 for people to realize that Alaska was valuable. -
Hawaii
The U.S. wanted to increase their buissness in Sugar Cain as well as gain prime military position in Pearl harbor. In 1893 Queen Liluokalone, who wanted to take control from the sugar cane farmers, was overthrown and the Republic of Hawaii was born. Hawaii was anexed in 1898 and became a U.S. territory in 1900 and became officially became a state in 1959.
