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Cotton Gin invented
The Cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney. By the mid-19th century, cotton had become America’s leading export. Despite its success, the gin made little money for Whitney due to some issues. Also, his invention offered Southern planters a justification to maintain and expand slavery even as a growing number of Americans supported its abolition. -
XYZ Affair
The XYZ Affair was a political episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War. -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from The French. He sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the territory and find a water route to the west coast or the Pacific Ocean. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
A treaty between the United States and Spain in that gave Florida to the United States and made the boundary between the United States and New Spain. -
Missouri Compromise
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Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. It warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate any colonization or puppet monarchs. -
Indian Removal Act
This act forced Native Americans to leave their land and go to Oklahoma. -
The Battle of the Alamo
Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar , Texas, United States, killing all of the Texian defenders. -
Texas Claims Independence
the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. -
Trail of Tears
As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. They call this the trail of tears because they lost a lot of people so a lot of tears were shed on this trip. -
Texas annexed to U.S
This was when Texas committed itself to the U.S. -
Mexican-American War
An armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 -
Agreement of 49th Parallel
The treaty provided for joint control of that land for ten years. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
California becomes a state
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Gadsden Purchase
A 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via treaty signed. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
