American progress

Manifest Destiny

By hannahaubreyhailey
  • signing of the treaty of Paris

    signing of the treaty of Paris

    The treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary war. It also established the boundaries between the US and British North America. Great Britain and the US both are given access to the Mississippi River.
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    manifest destiny timeline

  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    The Northwest Territory was the first organized territory of the US. It is the most important legislation that congress has passed with regard to American public domain lands. The Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery. This gave the US territory rights northwest of the Ohio River.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    France gianed Louisiana from Spain. US needed access to New Orleans. The US bought Louisiana from France for $15 million and it doubled the size of the US.
  • Treaty of 1818

    Treaty of 1818

    Set the border with Canada. Did not touch Oregon.
  • Florida Purchase

    Florida Purchase

    Treaty between the US and Spain that gave west Florida to the US and set a boundary between the US and New Spain. Called the Adams-Onis treaty.

  • Monroe Doctrine

    European non-colonization and non-intervention of the Americas. It is issued most directly to Russia. It applied to all European nations.
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act

    Moved native american tribes living east of the mississippi river to lands west of the river. this was a policy of ethnic cleansing.
  • Texas declared independence

    Texas declared independence

    Texas wanted to be free from Mexico. Texas gained Battle of San Jacinto.
  • Election of 1844

    Election of 1844

    James Polk defeats Henry Clay. The US is going to gain Oregon, Texas, and California.
  • Texas Annexation

    Texas Annexation

    The citizens didn't want Texas to be a slave holding region. They favored the annexation of the Lone Star Republic by the US.
  • Discovery of gold in California

    Discovery of gold in California

    People came to California from the rest of the US. At first gold could be picked up off the ground.
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    America gets land. Mexican session. US pays $15 million.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    FIve seperate bills in the US which difused a four year confrontation between the slave states of the south and free states of the north.
  • The Transcontinental Railroad is Completed

    The Transcontinental Railroad is Completed

    The Union Pacific Railroad is completed and the Central Pacific Railroads meet at Promontory, Utah. Railroad is completed.
  • Settlement of the West

    Settlement of the West

    People wanted to settle west to get wealthy off of the land and crops they would grow. They wanted to escape slavery and racism. They also wanted to spread democracy through the West. People stopped there lives and sold everything to seek gold in CA.