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WESTWARD EXPANSION
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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
Incident between French and United States diplomats. -
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
The Oregon Treaty set the U.S. and British North American border at the 49th parallel. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
Accord between the United States and Spain that divided their North American. -
Missouri Compromise
Admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Monroe Doctrine
The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
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
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
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
Independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. -
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
war between the United States and Mexico stemming from the United States' annexation of Texas in 1845. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic. -
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
Southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed by James Gadsden. -
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.
