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Northwest Ordinance
The event was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. It was caused from slavery, peoples rights, and admission of new states. -
Lousiana Purchase
It was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The territory contained land that forms Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska etc. He envisioned the reestablishment of a new colonial presence in the New World, something that had been. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. From near St. Louis making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast. They wanted to find more land so they came over here -
Eerie Canal
It was the engineering breakthrough of the 19th century. It was a more efficient way of travel than that on a dirt road. The canal had four waterways including the Erie, the Champlain, Oswego, and the Cayuga-Seneca which travel through New York. Being, 363 miles, it connects Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica, as well as New York City.
It was an easier way to travel so they made that instead of dirt roads. -
War of 1812
A military conflict, lasting for two and a half years. It was a 32-month military conflict in which the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world. The official reason as made clear in the declaration of war by the United States of America to Great Britain was the Impression Issue that was made by the British Government under. The United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. -
Purchase from Florida to Spain
Florida tried to claim the land as a possession of Spain. It was a treaty between the United States and Spain. It was located in Spain and Florida. -
Treaty of Gruadalupe Hidalgo
The officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic.The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.It ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. -
Indian Removal Act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral. -
Annexation Texas
The vast majority of Texas citizens favored the annexation of the Lone Star Republic by the United States. These events brought within the control of the United States the future states of Texas, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Washington, and Oregon, as well as portions of what would later become Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, and Montana. Texas represent another slave state, but the nature of Texas society did not appeal to cultivated New Englanders. -
Missouri Compromis
It is a United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30 north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Mormon Movement
The collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivist. They moved because their leader got assissinated and they were under attack. It happened in the Great Salt Lake of Utah. -
Trail of Tears
It is part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands. The indians called this the "Trail of Tears" because of its devastating effects. Give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
California Gold Rush
They found gold in the California region and all kinds of people came to see it. At first, loose gold nuggets could be picked up off the ground, and since there was no law regarding property rights in the goldfields, a system of "staking claims" was developed. The gold was located in California. -
Oregon Territory
The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States. The southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon. When established, the territory encompassed an area that included the current states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, as well as parts of Wyoming and Montana. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. The purchase was the last territorial acquisition in the contiguous United States to add a large area to the country. The two countries each claimed the Mesilla Valley as part of their own country. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It is a bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.They were wanting to ensure a northern transcontinental railroad route that would benefit his Illinois constituents -
Homestead Act
Set in motion a program of public land grants to small farmers. Opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim to up to 160 free acres of federal land. Nebraska Territory, to report for duty in St. Louis. -
Transcontiental Railroad
A contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders. The Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies. The rail line was an important goal of President Abraham Lincoln, fostered during the early portion of his term and completed four years after his death. -
The Dawes Act
Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship.
