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Louisiana Purchase
it was a treaty signed Jefferson to France buying the Louisina territory for $15 million -
Lowell's First Cotton Mill
a series of machines that turned raw cotton into cloth. This invention changed slavery and increased the need of cloth for clothing that usually the rich had a lot of. -
Missouri Compromise
A compromise passed by Congress in 1820 to admit Missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state while also setting a line (Missouri's southern border) north of which all Louisiana Purchase territory would be free. -
Andrew Jackson Elected
Andrew Jackson first ran for president and got most of the votes, but did not win. Then the next time Jackson became he ran he then became the 7th president with 54% of the popular vote and 178 out of 261 electoral votes. -
Indian Removal Act
a law passed by Congress that allowed the US to force the Indian tribes to move from the east of the Mississippi River to the west of the Mississippi River which later became Oklahoma. -
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Trail of Tears
it involved the indian removal act and it was the trail they moved the thousands of indians on. During this walk many died since the US didn't provide the food, water, medicine, and warmth they promised. -
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Mexican American War
Americans and Mexicans were confused on where the border was and when the US troops went to secure the border Mexicans thought they were attacking them since they thought they were on their land so they killed the US trrops. After that the US fought back and won that land. -
Compromise of 1850
A compromise passed by Congress to join California into the Union as a free state, to divide the rest of the Southwest into the New Mexico and Utah territories, with the people there determining for themselves through popular sovereignty whether or not to aceept slavery or not and to establish a stronger Slave Fugitive Law. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelties of slavery and showed how horrible it is that it actually made people dislike slavery even more and that proslavery and antislavery Americans supported teh causes. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
This act established Kansas and Nebraska as states with popular sovereignty. -
Bessemer Process Patented
The bessemer Process was a way that made steelmaking to be more cheap and quick. -
Bleeding Kansas
was a war involving a series of violent events in Kansas. -
Dred Scott Decision
This was made when the Supreme Court was in the case Scott v. Sandford and it legalized slavery in the territories and decleard the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional. -
Oil Discovered in Pennsylvania
Oil was found in Pennsylvania on a quiet farm and then many people started coming to the first successful oil well. -
John Brown's Raid
This was a raid led by 21 men and they were trying to abolish slavery, his plan was to arm slaves and then attack but failed and most of them died within 36 hours. -
Lincoln Elected
Lincoln was the 16th president and the 1st Republican elected. -
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Civil War
It was the North against the South and they were fighting over slavery. After the 4 year long war it ended in the Appottomax Court House by Robert E. Lee -
Emancipation Proclamation
It was issued by President Lincoln to free slaves in the Confederate states. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
when general Lee invaded the North for the second time and the heavy forced laws and ambushed which caused the Confederates to retreat -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
William Tecumseh Sherman commanded the Union armies of the West in the decisive drive from Chattanooga to Atlanta and the famous "march to the sea" across Georgia. In this he later pushed northward from Savannah through the Carolinas, Sherman's troops carried the war to the Southern home front and blazed a wide path of destruction that delivered the death blow to the Confederacy's will and ability to fight. -
13th Amendment
a constitutional change ratified abolishing slavery in the US -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
this was the surrender from Robert E. Lee to General Grant in the meeting the scheduled at the Appomattox Court House that ended the civil war. -
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Reconstruction
This was about rebuilding the South after the Civil War, but President Andrew Johnson and a few others were against the reconstructiion. -
Lincoln's Assasination
John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House -
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Black Codes
Laws put in place in the United States after the Civil War with the effect of limiting the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks. -
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Johnson's Impeachment
The Senate came within a single vote of taking the step of removing a president from office. Although the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson was ostensibly about a violation of the Tenure of Office Act, it was about much more than that. Also on trial in 1868 were Johnson's lenient policies towards Reconstruction and his vetoes of the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act. The trial was, above all else, a political trial. -
14th Amendment
The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -
15th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
The building of the railroad was to have a way from California to the Union during the American Civil War. It increasesed the population of the West by white homesteaders and freed slaves, while greatly contributing to the decline of the Native American culture in the regions it served. -
Standard Oil Form
John D. Rockefeller started the standard oil company in Ohio. -
First Telephone Called
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was the first person to make a call on a telephone and when he made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, Thomas Watson he sias, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." -
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The Gilded Age
This period also witnessed the creation of a modern industrial economy. A national transportation and communication network was created, the corporation became the dominant form of business organization, and a managerial revolution transformed business operations. By the beginning of the twentieth century, per capita income and industrial production in the United States exceeded that of any other country except Britain. Long hours and hazardous working conditions, led many workers to attempt to -
Lightbulb Invented
Thomas Edison invented the first light bulb that lasted about 36 hours. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Federal Law outlawed trusts, monopolies, and other forms of buisnesses that restricted tade -
Carnegie forms his Steel Company
Carnegie invented the mass production of steel. stell became very popularly used since it was strong and light. Usually was used for skyscrapers.
