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Cotton Gin invented
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin,a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
XYZ Affair- BEGAN
The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic incident between France and the United States that resulted in a limited, undeclared naval war with France known as the Quasi-War. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a purchase of land between the United States and France. For $15 million, the U.S gained approximately 827,000 square miles of land west from the Mississippi River. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Florida Purchase 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. -
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. -
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-BEGAN
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. -
The Battle of the Alamo
The Alamo was a mission that was originally named the Mission San Antonio de Valero. It was built by spanish settlers. In the early stages of the Texas war for independence from Mexico, a group of Texan volunteers that was led by George Collinsworth and Benjamin Milam overwhelmed the Mexican garrison at the Alamo and captured the fort, taking control of San Antonio. In the Battle of Alamo, the Mexican forces suffered a lot of deaths, losing between 600 and 1,600 men. -
Texas Claims Independence
Texas formally declared independence from Mexico. The Texas Declaration of Independence was signed at Washington-on-the-Brazos. The document focused on the rights of citizens to “life” and “liberty” but with an emphasis on the “property of the citizen.” -
Trail of Tears
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in Oklahoma today. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears" because of its devastating effects. -
Texas annexed to U.S
The Texas Annexation was when the U.S annexed Texas. When the U.S wanted to annex Texas, The Mexicans threatened war. -
Mexican-American War- BEGAN
The Mexican-American War marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the larger minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean -
Agreement of 49th Parallel
The 49th Parallel was the boundary line between Canada and the United States. It was when we took the bottom half of Oregon and the top half became Canada. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was a treaty that ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. The treaty also added an additional 525,000 square miles to the United States territory. -
California becomes a state
The first Spanish missionaries arrived in California in the 1700s, but California didn’t become a U.S. territory until 1847, as part of the treaty ending the Mexican-American War. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.
