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The Louisiana Purchase
The U.S had to pay 60 million francs plus 18 million francs for the cancellation, tfor a total sum was 15 million dollars and the Louisiana Territory. The land purchased included present day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Parts of Minnesota,Mississippi River, North and South Dakota, New Mexico, Northern Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Continental divide, Louisiana and the city of New Orleans -
Eerie Canal gets finished
The country wanted to open West from the Appalation mountains so settlers can give cheap products to the market, safly so they dont get hurt. The Canal started being built on Juy 4th 1817 and Finished on October 26th 1825. -
Trail of Tears
The removal of the Native Americans from Southeastern parts of the United States.
The removal included alot of members of the Cherokee, Muscogee which means creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, and alot others in the United States and moved from where they lived to Indian Territory somewhere else. -
Texas Gaining Independence
Was a armed conflict.Began in Texas with the Battle of Gonzales. Early Texan Army successes at La Bahia and San Antonio were soon met with devastating defeat at the same locations a few months after that between Mexicans and Texicans. -
The Alamo
Was a event in the Texas Revolution. Mexican troops launched an assault on the Alamo Mission nearSan Antonio. All but 2 Texicans were killed. -
Oregon Trail being traveled
the Oregon trail is a 2,000 mile trail that connected the Missouri River to Valleys in Oregon and all the states in between.The the beginning of the Trail were laid by fur trappers and traders from about 1811 to 1840 and were only able to pass by foot and horseback. By 1836, the first migrant wagon train got organized in Independence, Missouri, a wagon train had then been cleared to go to Fort Hall, Idaho -
Mormon Trail
The Mormon trail is a 1300 mile trail that the church of jesus christ traveled from 1846 to 1868.Today the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System -
U.S Mexican war
The Mexican and or American War was the first HUGE conflict stared by the idea of "Manifest Destiny"; and that led to some people believeing that America had a right that nobody could take away, or destiny, which means to expand the country's borders from 'sea to shining sea'. This belief eventually caused a great deal of pain and suffering for many Mexicans, -
Mexican War
Also know as the American Revolution. A armed conflict between Mexico and the from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S.Annexation of Texas which Mexico considered their territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. -
Mexican Cession
a historical name in the United States for the place of the present day southwestern U.S that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, but had never been part of the areas East of Rio Grande which had alsoclaimed by the Republic of Texas. -
California gold Rush
James W. Marshall found gold at Sutters Mill. People in Oregon were the first to hear about the gold finding. The earing of the gold brought 300,000 people to California and some to the U.S. -
Texas Annexed by U.S
it was originally as a break-away republic from Mexico by Texas Revolution, the state claimed anything that passed an area that included all of the present U.S. state of Texas, including parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming, based on the Treaties of Velasco between the new Texas Republic and also Mexico. -
California becomes a State
The name California once referred to a large area of North America claimed by Spain -
Gadsden Purchase
Also known to the Mexicans as Venta de La Mesilla, or Sale of La Mesilla,the treaty was sighned by by the American Embassedor James Gadsden. -
Indian Removal Act
strongly supported in the South, the states in the south really wanted to gain access to lands owned by the Five Civilized Tribes. Georgia, the largest state at that time, was involved in a contentious jurisdictional arguement with the Cherokee nation. President Jackson hoped removal would resolve the Georgia prolem/conflict.
