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Art
American painters often traveled to Europe to study art until the 1800s. In the mid 1800s, american artists started to develop their own style. A group known as the Hudson River School became known because they painted the Hudson River landscape. Many other painters also tried to paint Native Americans. Many of these painters painted to express America's future. -
Louisiana purchase
The Louisiana Purchase is between Mississippi River , Texas Annexation, Rocky Mountains. The states that are in the Louisiana Purchase are Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, part of Wyoming, part of Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. -
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Slavery ends
By 1810, a generation after the Revolution, over one fourth of all northern African Americans were still enslaved. But by 1840 slavery had almost completely disappeared. -
Dorthea Dix opens a grade school at the age of 14
After an unhappy childhood, Dorothea left home at the age of 12 to live with relatives in Boston and Worcester. She was 14 when she opened her first school for young children in 1816.
For the next 20 years she combined teaching with writing textbooks, poetry, and religious tracts for young readers. -
Florida purchase
The Florida Purchase is on the bottom border of Alabama and includes whole state of Florida. The year ceded was in 1819 by Spain. -
Maine becomes a state
Maine became the 23rd state on March 15, 1820, as part of the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
Settlers moved between Appalachians and Mississippi river
White settlers occupied much of land between the Appalachians and Mississippi River, families in search of good farmland moved west. -
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People become more educated
Art and writing became more substantial in society, making it easier to trade and pass on stories. -
Traders Moving to New Mexico
New Mexico had won independence from Spain. Before that time, the government did not American settlers on their land, because they thought that the Americans would take over their land. But the new government welcomed them with open arms, hoping it would boost the economy. -
Missouri becomes a state
The Missouri territory came to the United States as part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, one of the best real estate deals the United States ever made. Before Missouri became the 24th state on August 10, 1821, certain compromises had to be made to keep a balance in the Union between the slave and non-slave states. -
Denmark Vesey
a free African American called Denmark Vesey planned a revolt. However, he was betrayed before the revolt began. 36 people were executed -
Gibbons v. Ogden affirms federal over state authority in interstate commerce
The Court had to decide—who had the power to regulate navigation on interstate waterways: Congress, or the individual states? The Court ruled in Gibbons’s favor, holding that the Constitution gave this power to Congress. -
John Quincy Adams becomes the President
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John Quincy Adams becomes the President
The following year, Adams served as minister to England, a position his father had held 30 years earlier. In a post he was most suited for, John Quincy Adams served as secretary of state in President James Monroe's administration from 1817 to 1825. -
The US tries to buy texas
During the 1820s Mexico gained independence from Spain and allowed the immigration of settlers into Texas. the majority of immigrants were Americans whose population surpassed that of the Mexicans by several fold. -
Andrew Jackson becomes the President
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress. -
Mexico passed a law forbidding any more Americans to move to Texas.
20,000 Americans had resettled in Texas. Mexico passed a law forbidding any more Americans to move to Texas. -
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first commercial railroads
On February 28, 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first U.S. railway chartered for commercial transport of passengers and freight. There were skeptics who doubted that a steam engine could work along steep, winding grades, but the Tom Thumb, designed by Peter Cooper, put an end to their doubts. -
Fur trade
The fur trade started to die out by the late 1830s. -
Texans declare independence from Mexico
On March 2, 1836. They called themselves the Republic of Texas. -
The republic of Texas was formed
The republic of Texas was formed. Free land was offered to anyone who would help Texas fight for independence. It became its own country, called the Republic of Texas, from 1836 until it agreed to join the United States in 1845. Sixteen years later, it seceded along with 10 other states to form the Confederacy. -
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more than 50,000 people reached Oregon
Missionaries first blazed the way to the Oregon Territory in the mid 1830s and
beginning in 1842 thousands of overland travelers began their trek to the West. The
majority of the Oregon Trail pioneers arrived between 1842 and 1860 because of the
opportunity for land granted by the government. In 1852 alone, it is estimated that
over 50,000 people traveled west over the Oregon Trail in hopes of prosperity. -
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cotton boom in south leads to expansion of slavery
The cotton gin cleaned cotton more efficiently, decreased time, made it more profitable, and there was an increase in slavery.
Positive results of the Cotton Boom was it lead to a better economy, and they could sell more cotton. Negative results of the Cotton Boom was there was a demand for slaves, and there was a reliance on one industry. The South did suffer, because the value of cotton decreased. When the prices of cotton started to drop, the economy started to suffer. -
manifest destiny affected the election of 1844
The Whigs nominated Henry clay and the democrats chose James k Polk. Polk was elected president. Sam Houston, the president of Texas, signed a treaty of annexation with the United states. -
Joseph Smith was murdered
15,000 people fled from Illinois and moved to Utah because of the murder. -
Texas Annexation
Ceded in 1845 by U.S. Congress. The Texas Annexation is between the Mexican cession and Louisiana Purchase. The states in Texas Annexation are Texas, 3/4 of New Mexico, and 3/4 of Colorado. -
The United States tries to buy Texas
In 1845, the Republic of Texas voluntarily asked to become a part of the United States, and the government of the United States agreed to annex the nation. Mexican leaders had long warned the United States that if it tried to make Texas a state, it would declare war. -
a guide book warning pioneers of the dangers of the Indians was published
"Extremes of habits, manners, time and space,
Brought close together, here stood face to face,
And gave at once a contrast to the view,
That other lands and ages never knew." -
Oregon Country
Ceded in 1846 with an agreement from Britain. It borders the Mexican Cession, and the Louisiana Purchase. The states in Oregon Country are Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and part of Montana, and part Wyoming. -
people preparing for journey to Oregon and California
In the years to come, pioneers came to call the route the Oregon Trail. -
Utah settlement
Utah's year of settlement was 1847. Utah's type of settlers were Mormons. Utah's reasons for settlement were that Mormons needed a safe place to settle. Utah's types of settlements were Small town then a large busting city. Problems encountered in Utah were Mormon refugee. -
Mexican Cession
Ceded in 1848, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. The States in the Mexican Cession are California, Nevada, Utah, all of Arizona except the bottom, 1/4 of Colorado, and 1/4 of New Mexico. The Mexican Cession borders Oregon Country and Texas Annexation. -
California settlement
California's year of settlement was 1848. California's type of settlers were Prospectors. California's reason for settlement was that Gold was founded in 1849. California's type of settlements were boom towns/ camps. Problems that were encountered in California were Murder, disease, and theft. -
more than 80,000 people journeyed to California.
More than 80,000 people traveled to Alaska during the gold rush in 1849. During the gold rush, the Native American population in California fell from about 150,000 to only about 50,000. -
California statehood
California's statehood was confirmed in 1850. -
many immigrants come from Ireland and Germany
Germans: More than 1.5 million between 1820 and 1860. The 1850s was the single biggest decade for German immigration, with some 951,000 reaching the United States. Why They Came Irish: Most emigrated to escape grinding poverty in Ireland—or to avoid outright starvation in the years of the potato famine. -
from sea to shining sea
The United States expanded its borders until it reached “from sea to shining sea” -
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the number of Indians living in California went from 100,000 to 17,000
In 1850, California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, announced the state’s official position of genocide, ‘as the only solution to the Indian problem.’ The state funded both the bullets for the voluntary militia, and $10 to $25 for proof of executed Indians – scalps, heads, hands, or bodies. -
Dred Scott decision
Dred Scott was a slave who got his freedom through the American legal system. in this decision, the United States Supreme Court said that no afircan american could be a citizen. -
Abraham Lincoln becomes president
Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election in November of eighteen sixty. When he took office several months later, he faced the most serious crisis in American history. The southern states had finally acted on their earlier threats. They had begun to leave the Union over the issue of slavery. -
Utah statehood
Utah's statehood took place in 1896.
