Caused Spain to Ceded Florida to the United States.
What is Adams-Onís Treaty?
100
The person responsible for buying the Louisiana territory from France
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
Passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands
What is the Indian Removal Act?
100
Purchase in 1803 that doubled the size of the U.S. at the time.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
11 states had made this up.
What is the Confederacy?
200
Brought an end the Oregon boundary dispute.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
200
President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
Passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
Was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1819.
What is Florida?
200
The first state to leave the Union.
What is South Carolina?
300
Ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
Top general of the Union and later became president of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Largest land acquisition since the Louisiana Purchase, gained from the war with Mexico.
What is the Mexican Cession?
300
____ states formed the Union during the Civil War.
What is 23?
400
Signed on September 17 between United States treaty commissioners and representatives of the Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Crow, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara nations.
What is the Treaty of fort Laramie?
400
Top general of the Confederacy and is the most decorated general in the whole Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
Passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Interests.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
400
1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America.
What is the Texas Annexation?
400
Capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond Virginia?
500
Signed by British and American representatives at Ghent, Belgium, ending the War of 1812.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
500
An enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, that resulted in the deaths of 55 to 65 white people
Who is Nat Turner?
500
Government gave way land for very little cost, all people had to do was live on the land for at least five years and they could claim ownership of the land.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
Region occupied by British, French, and Canadian fur traders but taken by the United States and is now the Pacific Northwest area of the United States.
What is Oregon Country?
500
On July 21, 1861, Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War.