-
The first "constitution" for the new country of America.
2 sucesses were-- won the revolutionary war and passed the NW ordinance act. -
Edmund Randolph and James Madison were involved, bicarmeral legilature based on population of states.
-
Made by William Patterson, said that alll states would get one vote in the house, said to amend AOC
-
The NW ordinance let in new states and abolished slavery in the new states.
-
:) YAY!
-
France sent diplomats over (known as X, Y, and Z) to negoetiate bargains to get France and England to stop impressing sailors, but they asked for bribes, so the US didn't take their offers.
-
No majority, so it went to the senate. It was Thomas Jefferson vs. His running-mate Burr. Eventually, (on the 36th vote), they finally got it right and voted TJ president.
-
Limited imports from England, and said no to exports... The white house watched the economy drop after that.
Because of impressment of US sailors by the French and British -
A war that the Warhawks wanted beacause of Manifest Destiny. WIth Canada and Tecumseh.
-
Limited the Amount of military ships on the Great Lakes
-
They decided here that the boundry line in between Canada and the US was at the 49th parallel.
-
Gave the Spainish Florida to the United States, and had the US give up all claims of Spanish Texas
Circa. 1819 -
MA come to Texas as first empresario
circa. 1820 -
Mormonism is founded by Joseph Smith.
circa 1820 -
Missouri Compromise made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state to balance out slavery.
circa. 1821 -
said no-one could settle in North or South America-- passed by James Monroe and backed up by England
-
Allowed people to immigrate to Mexico gain land that was at least 11 leagues from the coast or a border of a country.
-
In the new constitution, the republic took the name of United Mexican States, and was defined as a representative federal republic, with Catholicism as the official and unique religion.ALso slavery was outlawed.
-
Started by Ben and Haden Edwards because Mexico wouldn't give them land grants, this was looked down upon by other Texans, but worried the Mexicans very much.
-
Mier y Teran made a report about how there should be more soldiers and Tejanos in Texas
circa 1827 -
Stopped Immigration from U.S. to Mexico, because of Mier y Teran's reports.
-
When South Carolina didn't want to pay their tariffs, so Andrew Jackson made a bill that lowered them, and passed a law saying Congress could use the military to force citezins to do stuff.
circa. 1832 -
Said they loved the Mexicna Government and were sorry about Anahuac
-
Explained that TX wanted:a repeal of the immigration restrictions, a three-year exclusion from custom duties enforcement, permission to form an armed militia and independent statehood. not a lot of Tejanos, so they didn't take it to Santa Anna
-
Wanted: a repeal of the immigration restrictions, a three-year exclusion from custom duties enforcement, permission to form an armed militia, independent statehood and English as the official language
Sent SFA to Mexico to tell Santa Anna -
start of Tx revolution, Mexicans wanted the cannon, but didn' end up getting it. The Lexington of the Texas Revolution.
-
General Fannin was attacked and almost all of the men were killed.
-
The Mexicans laid seige on the Alamo for almost 2 months before this, but this is the day they attacked.
-
The last battle of the revolution. The Texans attacked at night, and killed about 630 Mexicans.
-
"What hath God wrought?"
-
Gave the US California, Nevada, Utah, and New Maxico. Though the US, defeated Mexico, we still gave them 1.5 million dollars for the land, and didn't take all of it.
Ended February, 1848. -
Gold id found in Sutter's mill in Colma, California.