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Cotton Gin invented
Eli Whitney invented cotton gin. It was invented in the United State in 1793. -
XYZ Affair
The XYZ affair was a conflict between the United Sates and Republican France. It led an undeclared war called the Quasi-war. -
Louisiana Purchase
This is when the United states purchased territory from France. Thomas Jefferson led Lewis and Clark to explore territory in Louisiana purchase. Spain signed the treaty to give France back the Louisiana territory. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
Adams-Onis Treaty was also known as the Florida treaty. It was ratified by Spain on October 24, 1820. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise of 1820, began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. -
Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears
It was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
The Battle of The Alamo
On this day, general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna gathered a Mexican force to siege the fort. The Battle of the Alamo became an enduring symbol of their heroic resistance to oppression and their struggle for independence, which they won later that year. -
Texas Claims Independence
It was the formal declaration of independence. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington on the Brazos on March 2, 1836. -
Texas annexed to U.S.
Polk accomplished this through the annexation of Texas in 1845, the negotiation of the Oregon Treaty with Great Britain in 1846, and the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848. -
Trail of Tears
Nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. -
Mexican-American War
On April 25, 1846, Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. -
Agreement of 49th Parallel
Along with territorial disputes with Spain and Mexico over the Southwest, the fate of the Oregon Territory was one of the major diplomatic issues of the first half of the 19th century. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had a right to the Treaty of peace, friendship, limits and settlement between the U.S. and Mexican Republic. -
California becomes a state
California stretches from the Mexican border along the Pacific Ocean. Mexico had reluctantly ceded California and much of its northern territory to the United States in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
Gadsden Purchase
It settled the main boundaries of the United States of America, although Alaska was added in 1867. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. Kansas and Nebraska decided for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
