Westward expansion

WestWard Expansion TimeLine

By Valbow315
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    WESTWARD EXPANSION

  • Cotton Gin invented

    Cotton Gin invented

    Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
  • XYZ Affair

    XYZ Affair

    Incident between French and United States diplomats.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
  • Agreement of 49th Parallel

    Agreement of 49th Parallel

    The Oregon Treaty set the U.S. and British North American border at the 49th parallel.
  • Adams-Onis Treaty

    Adams-Onis Treaty

    Accord between the United States and Spain that divided their North American.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    Admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
  • Trail of Tears

    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.
  • Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears

    Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears

    Urged on by President Andrew Jackson, passed the Indian Removal Act which gave the federal government the power to relocate any Native Americans in the east.
  • The Battle of the Alamo

    The Battle of the Alamo

    Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, killing all of the Texian defenders.
  • Texas Claims Independence

    Texas Claims Independence

    Independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution.
  • Texas annexed to U.S.

    Texas annexed to U.S.

    Incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state.
  • Mexican-American War

    Mexican-American War

    war between the United States and Mexico stemming from the United States' annexation of Texas in 1845.
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic.
  • California becomes a state

    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, non slavery state by the Compromise.
  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase

    Southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed by James Gadsden.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    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.