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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was to set up to prevent colonist from going west of the appalachian mountains. It annoyed the colonists because they felt that they deserved to be able to expand to the land. The British tried to keep the colonist on the coast so they couldn’t go anywhere near the appalachian mountains and more towards the oceans and the cities like New York and Boston. -
Northwest Territory
Throughout the Revolutionary War era there was a much weaker central government. America experienced a severe economic contraction. This was between 1770 and 1790. The british navigation acts were no longer benefiting the colonists and they restricted trade with the West Indies and other British ports. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was when the French lead by Napoloan had gotten Spain to agree and give back the Louisiana Territory. Spain’s agreement to give Louisiana back to France jeopardized Pinckney’s Treaty, which provided Americans free navigation of the Mississippi River. -
West & East Florida
This was important because Seminole Indians frequently came from Florida into American territory to raid border towns, and American criminals and slaves who escaped across the border into Florida could not be recovered. -
Red River Basin
This land became part of the U.S. when the second article of the 1818 treaty declared the 49th parallel to be the official border between the U.S. and Canada up to the Rocky Mountains. -
Webster-Ashburton Treaty-
It was a treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British north american states. It resolved a dispute over the location of the Maine–New Brunswick border, established the border between Lake Superior and the Lake of the woods. -
Texas Annexation
The Texas Annexation was important because it was the 28th state and it also led to the Mexican-American war. -
Mexican Cessation
The Mexican Cession was significant because it became a political battleground between the North and the South. The issue was raised early in the war by David Wilmot, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania. Employing the language of the Northwest Ordinance, Wilmot proposed that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired from Mexico. -
Oregon Territory
The Oregon Territory was significant because the early nineteenth century, Spain, Russia, Great Britain, and the United States claimed sovereignty to the Oregon country. Oregon was a sprawling region of half a million square miles west of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, between what is now the northern boundary of California and the southern tip of Alaska.
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Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase was important because it was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico for land of Gadsden. -
Alaska
Alaska was purchased by the Russians in 1867 and it was and still is the biggest state in the United States. But it still has very few people in it for the size. -
Hawaii
Hawaii became a state in 1898 and it was important because we took over the land and it was the last state that the United States have acquired.
