Lesson 19 Timeline & Differing Viewpoints Reading

By Felipe Sales

  • Thomas Jefferson makes arrangements for the Louisiana purchase.

    Jefferson is making arrangements with diplomats to buy the Louisiana territory from France.

  • War of 1812

    This was the war that spanned from 1812-1818

  • France and Florida

    America persuaded France to cede Florida to the US.

  • America gets permission to found a colony in Texas.

    This gives America an entry into getting Texas.

  • President James K. Polk makes a bold claim.

    President James K. Polk makes a claim that America has clear rights to previously shared territory. (Oregon territory). This causes high tensions.

  • Texas is admitted.

    IT is admitted into the US as a slave state.

  • Britain gives up Oregon

    Britain didn't want war over Oregon so they signed a treaty with America that gave them Oregon.

  • War with Mexico.

    Troops are sent to Mexico and a war breaks out.

  • Mexico and America signed a treaty

    the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed,

  • Matthew Perry led a small fleet of American warships

    Matthew Perry led a small fleet of American warships into edo bay to try to open up trade with Japan.

  • perry returns

    The Japanese government promised to consider the president’s letter, so Perry returned with a larger fleet in 1854 to negotiate a treaty. The Japanese did not agree to trade, but they consented to the other requests, paving the way for an 1858 treaty that officially opened Japan to trade with the United States.

  • Purchasing Alaska

    Diplomacy wants to purchase Alaska.

  • The Samoan islands get looked at.

    They become a protectorate under GB, US, and Germany.

  • Britain takes back its claim.

    Samoan islands are left to America And Germany