Technology
This device used on plantation was introduced for its efficiency and the ability for interchangeable parts.
The Cotton Gin
Made by Thomas Jefferson in 1803 this purchase of land by the United States from France doubled the size of the country.
The Louisiana Purchase
This compromise named after the state that established it began a precedent that when one state was admitted another of the opposite view on slavery must also be admitted to not give political power to one over the other.
Missouri Compromise
War of 1812
The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who was a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815). As President he opposed the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers.
Andrew Jackson
This accurately firing cylindrical repeating gun was often referred to "The gun that won the west" and is synonymous with Texas.
The revolver
This territory was acquired by secretary of state John Quincy Adams in 1819 from Spain written in the Adams-Onis treaty.
Florida
The name of this line at 36o30' established as a slave vs. free state boundary in the west as a result of the Missouri Compromise in 1820.
Mason-Dixon Line
Zachary Taylor's artillery helped win this first major Mexican War battle.
Battle of Palo Alto
Creator of the American system, played a leading role in the Missouri Compromise, Republican candidate in the election of 1824, and was a proponent of the Monroe Doctrine.
Henry Clay
The man made waterway in the northeast that allows for easier transportation from the middle of the country to the east coast.
Erie Canal
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending this war ceded a large portion of modern day southwestern United States from Mexico to the United states. Including present day California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.
Mexican-American War
This court case ruled many compromises surrounding slavery to be unconstitutional.
Dred Scott V. Sanford
Battle led by Ben Milan and Frank Johnson - This was the third day of fighting - Milam was killed and Johnson took full command. This was a significant victory because 400 Texans had defeated a force of nearly 1000 Mexican troops.
Siege of Bexar
Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court who ruled in many court cases, namely in Marbury v. Madison where he created the principle of judicial review and strengthened the power o the Supreme Court.
John Marshall
This water powered facility used to refine raw materials into cloth and clothing instituted the idea of vertical integration in a business.
The Textile Mill
As a result of the Mexican-American war this state was annexed on December 27th, 1845 by president James Polk.
Texas
The Compromise Tariff of this year resolved the nullification crisis under president Andrew Jackson in South Carolina. Written by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.
1833
(1836) Final battle of the Texas Revolution; resulted in the defeat of the Mexican army and independence for Texas.
Battle of San Jacinto
1805-1879. American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one if the founders of the American Anti-slavery society.
William Lloyd Garrison
The ability to travel upstream, especially up the mississippi river, was introduced by this Robert Fulton invention.
Steamboat
The treaty named after this state set, signed on June 15, 1846, boundaries and settled border disputes between Britain and the United States.
Oregon
In the Compromise of 1850 this most westward state was instituted as a free state. With the addition of the Fugitive Slave Act and settling the borders of Texas.
California
1836 attack in San Antonio by Mexican forces during the Texas Revolution.
Battle of the Alamo
In 1828, he lead the fight against protective tariffs which hurt the south economically. Created the doctrine of nullification which said that a state could decide if a law was constitutional. This situation became known as the Nullification Crisis.
John C. Calhoun