WESTWARD EXPANSION TIMELINE

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    WESTWARD EXPANSION TIMELINE

    TIMESPAN OF 100 YEARS

  • COTTON GIN INVENTED

    COTTON GIN INVENTED
    Eli Whitney's patent[edit] Eli Whitney's original cotton gin patent, dated March 14, 1794. The modern mechanical cotton gin was invented in the United States of America in 1793 by Eli Whitney (1765–1825).

  • LOUISIANA PURCHASE

    LOUISIANA PURCHASE
    The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million

  • MISSOURI COMPROMISE

    MISSOURI COMPROMISE
    The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.

  • California becomes a state

    California becomes a state
    Date of California accepted into statehood.