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Cotton Gin invented
This event was very important it changed life but it cause more slaves to work to get the cotton. -
XYZ Affair
Congress felt uninformed and wanted Adams to release all the letters the American diplomats had sent. -
Louisiana Purchase
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Agreement of 49th Parallel
OREGON TREATY - The treaty provided for joint control of that land for ten years. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
It was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. And defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. -
Missouri Compromise
The United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
Monroe Doctrine
The best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears
Gave the federal government the power to relocate any Native Americans in the east to territory that was west of the Mississippi River. -
The Battle of the Alamo
Colonel James Bowie and Lieutenant Colonel William B. Travis prepared to defend the Alamo from the Mexicans who were going to take it back. -
Texas Claims Independence
Slavery was against Mexican law, but Americans brought slaves to Texas. Many American settlers and Tejanos, or Mexicans who lived in Texas, wanted to break away from Mexico. -
Trail of Tears
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. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
Texas annexed to U.S.
the Mexican-American War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1845–1848. During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. -
California becomes a state
Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850 -
Gadsden Purchase
Was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. -
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.
