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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
by the Second Continental Congress, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. -
Louisianna
the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed by Robert Livingston, James Monroe, and Barbé Marbois in Paris. President Jefferson announced the treaty to the American people on July 4. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
A journey made by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, to explore the American Northwest, newly purchased from France, and some territories beyond. -
War of 1812 (There is a connection)
The republic's expansion to the west and renewed military conflict with Indian nations and Great Britain each posed a fundamental challenge to the fragile new republic. All three of these factors played a role in the coming of the War of 1812. -
Purchase of florida from spain
When we purchased Florida basically -
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, -
Eerie Canal
the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east. -
Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson signed the act removing indians off of federal property. -
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 -
Mormon Mobement
is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 15 million members.[1] The vast majority of adherents belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), with their predominant theology being Mormonism. The LDS Church self-identifies as Christian.A minority of Latter Day Saint adherents, such as members of the Community of Chris -
Annexation of Texas
The annexation of Texas to the United States became a topic of political and diplomatic discussion after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and became a matter of international concern between 1836 and 1845, when Texas was a republic. In September 1836 -
California Gold Rush
when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Negotiated by chief clerk of the State Department, Nichoas P. Trist, adfter a few faied attempts at an armistice. He signed the treaty on Feb. 2nd 1848 -
Oregon Territory
southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Antislavery supporters were outraged because, under the terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery would have been outlawed in both territories. -
Gadsden Purchase
roughly 30,000 square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was acquired by the United States in a treaty signed by American ambassador to Mexico James Gadsden -
Homestead Act
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Transcontinental Railroad
Finally the two sets of railroad tracks were joined and the continent united with elaborate ceremony at Promontory, -
The Dawes Act
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.
Spain relinquishes sovereignty over Cuba, cedes Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States as well as the Philippine Islands for $20 million. Spain and its Colonies:
