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Treaty of Paris
President: None
ONI: Great Britan, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic
Event: The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America. The treaty with France was mostly about exchanges of captured territory .It primarly gave the United States more land to own and conqure. It is still controlled by the U.S. -
Jay's Treaty
President: George Washington
ONI: England
Event: A comerical war was going to happen between America and Britian for the past rivary that they had.John Jay the statesman of America\ went to England to negotiate disagreements between the two governments. On November 19, 1794 Jay's Treaty was signed, averting the threat of war. -
Louisiana Purchase
President: Thomas Jefferson
ONI: France
Event:The Louisiana Purchase was the largest land purchase in the history of the United States. It was also the cheapest (per square mile). The one thing that the United States Government wanted more of was land. And the Louisiana Territory had a lot of land. The U.S. also wanted to protect American shipping and settlement. Napoleon didn't want to sell New Orleans but he needed the money so ended up selling it for; 15 Million -
Lewis, Clark, and Sacajawea Expedition
President: Thomas Jefferson
Other Nations Involved: Native Americans
Event Description: Once America bought the Louisiana Territory, President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the new land that they had just bought. Their job was to learn as much as they could about the new territory. They kept detailed notes in journals, and they brought and sent back examples of hundreds of species of animals and plants. It was a total of 30men . Sacajawea helped them survive and protected them -
National Road
1811-1834
President: Thomas Jefferson
ONI: None
Event: It was built in 1811 and 1834 to reach western settlement. The U.S. wanted to start moving people to the West Coast as fast and easiest as possible. This was the first American founded high way. It is still under U.S. Control. -
Anglo-American Convention of 1818
President: James Monroe
ONI: Great Britain, Ireland, Canada
Event: The Anglo-American Convention of 1818 set the boundary between the U.S. and the territory later to be Canada at the forty-ninth parallel up to the Rocky Mountains. Britain sent Charles Bagot to the U.S. to meet with Secretary of State James Monroe. The two later came to an agreement and ratified it on April 28. 1818. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
President:
Other Nations Involved: Mexico
Event: The Adams-Onis Treaty was one of the critical events that defined the U.S.-Mexico border. In the provisions, the United States ceded to Spain its claims to Texas west of the Sabine River. Spain stayed with not only Texas, but also California and New Mexico. These two territories included all of present-day California and New Mexico along with modern Nevada, Utah, Arizona and sections of Wyoming and Colorado. Still under U.S. Control. -
Santa Fe Trail
!821-1860's
President:Andrew jackson, Martian Van Buren,William harri
Other Nations Involved:
Event Description:Between 1821 and 1880, the Santa Fe Trail was primarily a commercial highway connecting Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1821 until 1846, it was an international commercial highway used by Mexican and American traders. Then the Mexican-American war started. Then it ended and the Santa Fe Trail became a national road connecting the United States to the new southwest territories. -
Mormon Trek
EDIT Date: 1846 President: James Polk
The Mormon Trek was led by Brigham Young and his 3,000 followers. The Mormons wanted to reach Utah before winter, but they were challenged with harsh weather and bitter cold. By June of 1846, the first group of Mormons reached the Missouri River. Young decided that it would be impossible to reach Utah by the goal time and that it would be easier to stay in Missouri until the following spring. -
Black Hawk War
President:
ONI: Native Americans
Event:
The war started because the Black Hawks and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis, and Kickapoos crossed the Mississippi River into the U.S. state of Illinois in April 1832. The war started and lasted for 5 months. As a result the Black Hawks surrendered because they had no food, no more strength and no more men left to fight. They were imprisoned for a year. -
Indian Removal Act
President: Andrew Jackson
ONI: Native A
Event:Authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. During the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, the Cherokees were forcibly moved west by the United States government. Approximately 4,000 Cherokees died on this forced march, which became known as the "Trail of Tears."
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Oregon Trail
President:
Other Nations Involved:
Event Description: After The Lousiana Purchase the country nearly doubled in size.The U.S. needed a much easier train than what Lewis and Clark used to get people settled on the west coast. In the spring of 1843 a whole thousand group of people go together and started to move on this new train to new lands.1846; thousands of emigrants who went west found their way to Oregon Country. -
California Gold Rush
Date: 1848
President: James Polk
Event description: James Marshall and his crew were building a saw mill for John Sutter when Marshall discovered a few gold nuggets in the dirt. The first printed notice of the discovery was in the March 15 issue of "The Californian" in San Francisco. In 1849, quartz mining began at the Mariposa mine in Mariposa County because gold deposits were often found inside quartz veins. -
Oregon Treaty Following "54 40' Or Flight Campaign
Date: 1846 President: James Polk Other nations involved: Great Britain, Ireland, Canada Event description: The Oregon Treaty ended 28 years of joint occupancy of the Pacific Northwest between Great Britain and the U.S. The treaty established the 49th parallel as the border between the two countries. On August 14, 1848, Congress formally established the Oregon Territory, which embraced the present-day states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. -
Annexation of Texas
Date: 1845 President: John Tyler Event description: U.S. gains Texas from Britain in 1845. Britain was not keen on the idea of U.S. growth but did not want to add Texas to the British Empire. Britain influenced Mexico's decisions and the government of Mexico agreed to acknowledge the independence of Texas on condition that she not annex herself to any country. U.S. Congress voted for annexation and a state constitution, drawn up by the convention, was ratified in October 1845. -
Mexican American War
President:
Other Nations Involved:
Event Description: Between 1846 and 1848, two neighbors, the United States and Mexico, went to war. It was a defining event for both nations, transforming a continent and forging a new identity for its peoples. By the war's end, Mexico lost nearly half of its territory, the present American Southwest from Texas to California, and the United States became a continental power. -
Gadsden Purchase
Date: 1853
President: Franklin Pierce Other nations involved: Mexico James Gadsden was grandson to Christopher Gadsden, a South Carolina Revolutionary soldier. The Gadsden Purchase has an area of 45,535 square miles and is almost as large as Pennsylvania. The land was nearly 30,000,000 acres and only cost Uncle Sam about thirty-three cents an acre. The U.S. wanted to buy enough territory from Mexico to build a railroad to the Gulf of California. -
1865 Ports of Entry Act
Date: 1865 President: Abraham Lincoln Other nations involved: Event description: The Port of Entry Act was created to prevent outside countries from depleting the fish supply of the Marshall Islands. It also regulated the amount of cargo that a ship could transport. -
The Russian Treaty of 1867
Date: 1867 President: Andrew Johnson Other nations involved: Russia Event description: On March 30, 1867, the U.S. made an agreement with Russia to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million. The treaty was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the U.S. Edouard de Stoeckl. The U.S. gained the territory known as Alaska, most likely to use for the military. The land is still in U.S. possession. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Date: 1868 President: Andrew Johnson Event description: This treaty recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. The U.S. did not gain territory and rather showed that certain lands belonged to the Sioux Indians. In 1874, George Custer led an expedition into the Black Hills in an attempt to find gold. Once gold was found, miners were soon moving onto Sioux lands and demanding protection from the U.S. army. To this day, ownership of the Black Hills remains unknown. -
Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and The Kingdom of Hawaii
Date: 1893 President: Benjamin Harrison Event description: In Hawaii, a group of American sugar planters under Sanford Dole overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, and created a new government with Dole as president. The U.S. gained the Hawaiian islands and used them for their sugar and sandalwood, and built naval bases on the islands. The territory is still in U.S. possession. -
Spanish-American War
Date: 1898 President: William McKinley Other nations involved: Spain Event description: The U.S. declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor in Feb. 1898. The war ended with the Treaty of Paris and the U.S. gained control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines Islands, Guam, and other islands. The U.S. wanted control over the territory to add more military bases throughout the neighboring oceans. The Philippines are not under U.S. control anymore. -
Philippine-American War
Date: 1901 President: William McKinley Other nations involved: Philippines Event description: The U.S. purchased the Philippines, Puerto Rico and several other islands from the Spanish in 1899. However, the Filipinos had no intention of becoming a colony of another imperialist power. The U.S. wanted an overseas empire and the Filipino people wanted freedom. The U.S. won and kept the territory. The Philippines became an independent nation on July 4, 1946. -
Treaty of Berlin
Date: 1899 President: William McKinley Other nations involved: Germany, Great Britain Event description: Germany and Great Britain sign a treaty with the U.S. that states the islands of Samoa will be advised by Germany and Britain. The U.S. is granted access to America Samoa. The U.S. uses the land for military bases and the territory is still under American influence. -
Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty
Date: 1903 President: Theodore Roosevelt
agreement between the United States and Panama granting exclusive canal rights to the United States across the Isthmus of Panama in exchange for financial reimbursement and guarantees of protection to the newly established republic -
Purchase of Croix, St. John and St. Thomas
President - Woodrow Wilson
ONI- Denmark
Event-During WWI, the U.S bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark for 25 million dollars in pure gold. America purchased the land in order to improve their military and their positions during the war. It still under U.S control. -
League of Nations Mandate- Trust Territory of the Pacific Island
President: Bill Clinton and Rondald Ragen
ONI: Japan
Event: Japan lost WWII and were forced to give up the territory to the U.S. The U.S. wanted the land to strengthen militia and create military bases. Each island is under different means of control but the territory is still under American possesion. The islands are the Marshalls, the Marianas, and the Carolines. -
Treaty of San Francisco
President-Harry S Truman
ONI- Japan
Event- The Treaty of San Francisco did not gain America any land, the U.S made an agreement for the other islands to be independant but to use them for military purposes. This freed many countries that were under Japanese power. Such as, Antarctica and Korea and other islands such as Taiwan were no longer under the control of Japan. -
The Antarctic Treaty
President - Dwight D. Eisenhower
ONI-Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States
Event-This treaty was created to to establish it Antartica as a zone free of nuclear tests and the disposal of radioactive waste. Forty-six countries have agreed to the treaty. The Antarctic Treaty is still enforced today. -
Boundray Treaty of 1970
President- Richard Nixon
ONI-Mexico
Event-This treaty was made so that people in either country (the U.S and Mexico) knew how far to go in either country. The treaty settled the boundary disputes between the two countries involving the Rio Grande. The treaty is still intact today.
