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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the Freedom Ordinance or The Ordinance of 1787 -
Louisiana Purchase
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. -
Lewis and Clark Expedtion
also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. -
War of 1812 (in connection to westward expansion)
The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 18, 1812 to February 18, 1815, fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies. -
Purchase of Flordia from Spain
Known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and 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 -
Eerie Canal
is a canal in New York that is part of the east-west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System. -
Mormon Movement
The Book of Mormon.
The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement or LDS restorationist movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s. -
Indian Removal Act
was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. -
Trail of Tears
was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. -
Annexation of Texas
was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America. -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a period in American history which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.[ -
treaty of guadalupe hidalgo
officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848. -
Oregon Territory
The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848 -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853. -
Kansas-Nebraka Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Homestead Act
encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
Transcontinental Railroad
was a 1,907-mile 3,069 kmcontiguous railroad line constructed in the United States between 1863 and 1869 west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa. -
The Dawes Act
An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes. -
Spanish American War (What lands did U.S. Gain)
was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898
