Westward expansion

By ashton_neuman

  • XYZ Affair-

    confrontation between the United States and Republican France

  • Louisiana Purchase

    It was a deal between france and the english, which resulted in the doubling of the U.S.

  • Adams-Onis Treaty

    treaty between the United States and Spain that made Florida part of America

  • Missouri Compromise

    effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries

  • Monroe Doctrine

    U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent

  • Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears-

    caused the natives to proceed onward to a camp in which they were moved because of the land thye had been forced to give up by the indian removal act

  • Texas Claims Independence-

    it is when they wanted to become free from mexico, so the claimed independence

  • The Battle of the Alamo-

    Pivotal point in texas revolution

  • Trail of Tears-

    The natives were forced to give up their land east of the mississippi

  • Mexican-American War-

    war between the U.S. and Mexico

  • Agreement of 49th Parallel-

    primary international boundary in the Pacific Northwest

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo-

    Treaty of peace between the americans and the Mexicans

  • California becomes a state-

    When California was inaugerated as an official state

  • Gadsden Purchase-

    purchased by the United States in a treaty

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska

  • Texas annexed to U.S.-

    Greatest territorial expansion of U.S.

  • Cotton Gin invented-

    it was an easier way for slaves to produce cotton