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Westward Expansion
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Cotton Gin invented
A machine that made the production of cotton by speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. By the mid-19th century, cotton had become America’s leading export. -
XYZ Affair
Was a political and diplomatic, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and France that led to an undeclared war . -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land that dealt between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
Was a treaty between the United States and Spain in that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and Spain. -
Missouri Compromise
Was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries that triggered by the request of Missouri for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Monroe Doctrine
Was a U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land in North America would be viewed as acts of aggression. -
Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears
By the end of the decade, very few natives remained in the southeastern United States. The federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. -
The Battle of the Alamo
By 1800, the Missionaries were displaced and the land was seized for military purposes. Occupying soldiers called the mission turned garrison el alamo after the cottonwood trees surrounding it. Eventually officially renamed The Alamo. -
Texas Claims Independence
The Texas Declaration of Independence was issued during a revolution against the Mexican government that began in a following series of governments. -
Trail of Tears
The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died. -
Texas annexed to U.S.
In 1836, they declared Texas an independent state, called the Republic of Texas. After a Texan victory at the Battle of San Jacinto later that year, fighting stopped. It was under constant threat of invasion from Mexico, and the government did not have enough money in its treasury to work. -
Mexican-American War
A war between the U.S. and Mexico spanned the period from spring to fall. The war was initiated by Mexico and resulted in Mexico's defeat and the loss approximately half of its territory in the north. -
Agreement of 49th Parallel
Britain and the United States sign the Treaty of Oregon establishing the 49th parallel as the primary international boundary in the Pacific Northwest. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was brought an end to the Mexican-American War. Which was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, where the Mexican government had fled from the advance of U.S. forces. -
California becomes a state
When California became part of the United States in 1848, it did not become a state. Most of California’s were still governed by the alcaldes appointed by Mexico’s government. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of the southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It is allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. The bill overturned the Missouri Compromise that uses a latitude as a boundary between slave and free territory.
