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The Panic of 1819 was the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States followed by a general collapse of the American economy persisting through 1821
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protestants missionaries arrive in Hawaii and converted many Hawaiians to Christianity
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the final projects of the 1820s the 363-mile erie canal was completed in 1825 connecting buffalo new york on the great lakes with albany
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The Indian Removal Act was signed by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. 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 lands.
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The Cherokee Trail of Tears resulted from the enforcement of the Treaty of New Echota, an agreement signed under the provisions of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which exchanged Indian land in the East for lands west of the Mississippi River, but which was never accepted by the elected tribal leadership
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Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, expressed the philosophy that drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion. Manifest Destiny held that the United States was destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
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In 1844, Congress finally agreed to annex the territory of Texas. On December 29, 1845, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War.
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The exploits of the donner party exemplified the difficulties of the overland journey to the far west led astray of the guidebook the donner party found itself in a snow storm in sierra nevada and only reached california when they turned to cannibalism
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The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. The conflict over the Wilmot proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.
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The compromise of 1850 was a major effort at quieting sectional conflict in pre civil war american politics
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The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs
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The French abandon an unsuccessful attempt to build a canal through panama connecting the pacific and Atlantic oceans
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On Jan. 17, 1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. The coup led to the dissolving of the Kingdom of Hawaii two years later, its annexation as a U.S. territory and eventual admission as the 50th state in the union.
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The US Congress declares war on Spain
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In the first battle between Spanish and American Forces, U.S. Commodore Dewey and his Asiatic squadron defeat the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
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US forces destroy the spanish fleet off santiago bay cuba
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The US and spain sign the protocol of peace ending hostilities between the two
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The Treaty of Paris is signed by representatives from the U.S. and Spain. After extensive debate, the treaty is ratified by the U.S. senate on February 6, 1899. Under the treaty, the U.S. acquires control over Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines
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The Hawaiian pineapple company now dole is established James Drummond dole first plants pineapples in wahiawas country side
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The US senate passes the spooner bill authorizing government to build a canal through panama
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The colombian senate fails to ratify the hayherreran treaty which would have provided land rights to the US to build a canal through panama
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a revolution in panama aided by the US results in panamanian independence from colombia and the establishment of the republic of panama
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panama grants the US control over the panama canal zone for 10 million dollars
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The US acquires French property relating to the canal for 40 million dollars
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the panama canal is officially opened