Big events from America

setting up national bank

820 compromise balancing the admission of Missouri as a slave state with the admission of Maine as a free state and setting a line across the continent dividing future free and slave states

treaty negotiated by John Quincy Adams to purchase Florida from Spain

policy warning European monarchies not to interfere with Latin American republics in return for U.S. non-interference

new nation created by Texans in 1835

forced march to Oklahoma in the winter of 1838, during which 4,000 Cherokees died

proposed law that would have banned slavery in territory obtained from Mexico

The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War or the U.S.–Mexican War, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S.

mass migration of gold seekers into California in 1848 and 1849

held in New York in 1848, the first women’s rights convention in the United States

1853 sale of Mexican territory in Arizona and New Mexico to the U.S.