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Cotton Gin invented
The more modern mechanical cotton gin was invented in the USA in around 1793 by Eli Whitney. Whitney applied for a patent on October 28, 1793; the patent was received back to him and granted around March 14, 1794, but this patent was not validated until 1807. -
XYZ Affair Begins
The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic incident that almost led to war between the United States and France. The scandal inflamed U.S. public opinion and led to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 Though the affair caused an unofficial naval war, the two countries were able to put aside their differences and end their conflict around 1800. -
XYZ Affair Ends
The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic incident that almost led to war between the United States and France. The scandal inflamed U.S. public opinion and led to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 Though the affair caused an unofficial naval war, the two countries were able to put aside their differences and end their conflict around 1800. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. got exactly 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for about $15 million dollars. -
Agreement of 49th Parallel
This was a political and diplomatic period in 1797 and also 1798, earlier in the administration of John Adams, this was involved with a episode between the USA and Republican France that had been leading to a war called the Quasi-War. -
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. and New Spain. It settled a standing border confrontation between the two countries and was considered a victory of American diplomacy. -
Missouri Compromise
In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery bonds within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a over flowing point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention -
Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears
On the date June 15, 1846 Britain and the USA signed the Treaty of Oregon establishing the 49th parallel as the “primary” international boundary, in the Pacific Northwest. -
The Battle of the Alamo
The arrival of General López de Santa Anna's army outside San Antonio almost caught them by surprise. Untouched the people of the Texans and Tejanos prepared themselves to defend the Alamo all together. The defenders held out for what felt like a long 13 days against Anna's army. -
Texas Claims Independence
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington on the Brazo on March 2, 1836, and formally signed the following day after mistakes were noted in the text. -
Trail of Tears
As a chunk of Jackson's Indian removal policy, all of the Cherokee nation was indeed forced to give up all of their lands east of the Mississippi River and also forced to migrate to an area in Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects on the people being that most of their people died on this great long walk. -
Texas annexed to U.S.
Both the Congress and the convention voted indeed for annexation. A state constitution, brotten up to by the convention, this was ratified by a very popular vote in October 1845 and indeed accepted by the US Congress on December 29, 1845, this was the date of Texas's legal entry into the Union. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Officially entitled the Treaty of Peace also including Friendship, Settlement between the USA and the Mexican Republic, and the peace treaty that was signed on February 2, 1848. -
Mexican-American War
A war between the US and Mexico expanded the period from 846 to 1847. The war was started by Mexico and resulted in Mexico's defeat and the loss of roughly half of its national territory in the north. In the U.S. the war is termed the Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War, the US Mexican War or the Invasion of Mexico. -
California becomes a state
California became the 31st state on September 9, 1850. The Golden State’s rich history has since been shaped by people of every ethnic background who traveled here seeking economic, social and educational opportunity, and a life of quality and breathtaking beauty. California situated its first capital in San Jose. The city did not have facilities ready for a proper capital, and the winter of 1850 - 1851 was unusually wet, causing the dirt roads to become muddy streams. -
Gadsden Purchase
29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853 by James Gadsden who was the American ambassador to Mexico at that time. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated popular sovereignty allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.
