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Oct. 5 1813
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March 6 1836
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It was a land deal between the United States and France.
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Fulton's Folly, but called clermont because of where it came from, had it's first run on August 17, 1807
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Was also known as the Flordia Wars. There were three of them from the years 1817-1858
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Also known as the Flordia treaty, ceded Flordia over to the U.S. from Spain.
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It was an international commercial highway for traders.
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It is a 425 mile canal and took 2 years of digging to complete it.
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On May 28, 1830 the removal act was passed by congress, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
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Ceding Cherokee land to the U.S. in exchange for compensation
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The defenders held up for 13 days and the final assault came before day break on the morning of March 6, 1836
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Was apart of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Policy and over 4,000 of 15,000 had died on the painful trip. It lasted a whole year.
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A 2,200 mile east-west trail served as a critical transportation route for emigrants traveling from Missouri to Oregon and other places.
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The first telegraph sent by inventor Sameul F. B. Morse on that day.
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The day that Texas became the 28th official state.
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A group of some 90 emigrants, led by Jacob and Geroge Donner left Springfield, Illinois in the spring of 1846. They tried taking a short cut to get to California but ended up snowbound in the Seirra Mountains and turned to cannibalism. Only half made it.
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Set the U.S. at the 49th parrallel, with the exception of Vancouver Island.
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Gold was discovered there and it was involved in the California Gold Rush
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The treaty recognized Texas as a U.S. state, and ceded a large chunk of land — about half the area that belonged to the Mexican republic — to the United States for the cost of $15 million. The Mexican Cession included land that would later become California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
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An organized incorporated territory. exsisted from the above date until Feb. 14, 1859
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The day that California became the 31st state
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29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty
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It last until May 9 1865. The American Civil War was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy
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The day alaska was purchased.
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It was completed on May 10, 1869.
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s the ceremonial final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.
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It lasted until the 26 of June 1876. It was a last effort for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian to preserve their way of life.
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The Sioux chief Big Foot and some 350 of his followers were camped on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek, but were surrounded by U.S troops who were supposed to arrest Big Foot and disarm his men.
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It became the 48th state on this day.
