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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed between the American Colonies and Great Britain. It ended the American Revolutionary War, resulting in America's independance. All French Territory on the mainland of North America was lost. -
Northwest Land Ordinance
The Second Continental Congress promoted the Northwest Ordinance to provide a government for the Northwest Territory. It was a new method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory listing a Bill of Rights. -
Pickney's Treaty
Established intended friendship between the US and Spain. It set boundaries of the US on navigation rights among the MIssissippi River. -
Louisiana Purchase
The US purchased the Louisiana territory from France. This purchase more than doubled the area of the US. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The journey helped opened the America west to futher exploration and settlement. It was the first American expedidtion to cross the western part of the US and the MIssissippi River. -
Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a bill granting statehood of a slave state to MIssouri. It succeeded in keeping the Union together for more than thirty years. -
Monrone Doctrine
The Monrone Doctrine was the closest America ever came to making Manifest Destiny and official policy. It put European Nations on notice that the US would defend other nations of the western hemisphere from further colonization. -
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal, also known as the Clinton's "Big Ditch" was a canal in New York that was dug for more than 2 years ranging 363 miles. It connected the East and the West making shipping easier, and reducing shipping cost. -
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears is known for the forced relocation of Native Americans from southeastern parts of the United States. Many Native Americans suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation. -
Indian Removal Act
It formally changed the course of the US policy toward the Native American tribes. It allowed the US government to put enormous pressure on the Chiefs to sign removal treaties and provided some legal standing to remove them by force. -
Battle of Alamo
4,000 troops from Mexico laid seige to the town of San0Antonio where t=200 Texans resisted, retreating to an abandoned mission, the Alamo. It became a symbol of the Texans' determination to win independance. -
Battle of San Jacinto
A battle of the Texas Revolution, and fight that lasted only 18 minutes. About 630 of the Mexican soldiers were killed and 730 captured while only 9 Texans died. The Mexicans surrendered and retreated to the south of the Rio Grande. -
Mexican-American War
The War was between the US and the Centralist Republic of Mexico resulting in an American victory causing Mexico to lose nearly 1/3 of its' territory. California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico make up the modern day area in which this event occured. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
America gets land, Mexican sucession. The US pays 15 million dollars to Mexico and pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico up to 3.5 million. -
Compromise of 1850
A major effort at quieting sectional conflict in pre-Civil War Americanpolitics. It admittted California to statehood as a free state and dividing the remainder jof the Mexican cession. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the law that prohibited slavery above the thirty six degrees, thirty minutes longitude line in the Old Louisiana Purchase. It attracted settlers. -
Morman Reformation
Renewed spirits of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and was led by Brigham Young. He led the Latter-Day Saints to Utah for revival. The population increased due to high birth rates and poligamy. -
Homestead Act
Intended to make lands opening up in the west available to a wide variety of settlers. It required settlers to complete three steps in order to obtain 160-acre lots of surveyed government land.
