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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
The event was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the U.S. It was caused from slavery, people rights, and admission of new states. -
Louisiana Purchase
The purchase by the United States from France of the huge Louisiana Territory in 1803. President Thomas Jefferson ordered the purchase negotiations, fearing that the French, then led by Napoleon, wanted to establish an empire in North America. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. From near St. Louis making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast. -
War of 1812
A military conflict, lasting for two and a half years. It was a 32 month military conflict in which the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world. The official reason as made clear declaration of war by the United Stated of America to Great Britain was the Impression Issue that was made by the British Government under, The United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its Native American allies. -
Purchase of Florida from Spain
Florida tried to claim the land as a possesion of Spain. It was a treaty between the United States and Spain. It was located in Spain and Florida. -
Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri. -
Eerie Canal
It was the engineering breakthrough of the 19th century. It was a more efficient way of travel than on a dirt road. The canal had four waterways including the Eerie, the Champlain, Oswego, and the Cayuga-Seneca which travel through New York. Being, 363 miles, it connects Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Utica, as well as New York City. It was an easier way to travel so they made that instead of dirt roads. -
Indian Removal Act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral. -
Trail of Tears
It’s a part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands. The Indians called this the "Trail of Tears" because of its effects. Give up its land east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
Annexation of Texas
Both Congress and the convention voted for annexation. A state constitution, drawn up by the convention, was ratified by popular vote in October 1845 and accepted by the United States Congress. -
Mormon Movement
The collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivism. They moved because their leader got assassinated and they were under attack. It happened in the Great Salt Lake of Utah. -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was a period in American history which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma. Coloma is located in California. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of American and the Mexican Republic. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. It ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. -
Oregon Territory
The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States. The southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Oregon. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed, -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It's a bill that mandated "popular sovereignty" allowing settlers of a territory decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders. They were wanting to ensure a northern transcontinental railroad route that would benefit his Illinois constituents. -
Homestead Act
Set in motion a program of public land grants to small farmers. Opened up settlement in the western. United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves. -
Transcontinental Railroad
A contiguous network of railroad track age that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders. The Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies. The rail line was an important goal of President Abraham Lincoln, fostered during the early portion of his term and completed four years after his death. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887 adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Spanish-American War
A war between Spain and the United States in 1898, as a result of which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and Guam to the United States and abandoned all claim to Cuba, which became independent in 1902.
