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When Tomas Jefferson was elected this made a really big dent in history. After this election a domino effect started. If he wasn’t elected Lewis and Clark would have never went on the expedition, this leaded to them making the land and purchasing it. If none of this would have started then slavery wouldn’t be as big of an impact on our history.

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Great Britain gave up their land holdings west of the Appalachian Mountains. This land became known as the northwest territory. In 1787 Congress passed the Northwest Land Ordinance that let new territories be admitted to the United states. It banned slavery making the Ohio River the boundary between free and slave regions. This didn’t help slavery, although they banned slavery in one region it was still a big debate around this time.

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The killings at Pottawatomie Creek marked the beginning of the bloodletting of the “Bleeding Kansas” period, as both sides of the slavery issue tried to prove their side with violence.

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The First Sack of Lawrence occurred on May 21, 1856, when proslavery men attacked and looted the antislavery town of Lawrence, Kansas. A direct act of violent aggression by slave-owning southern

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A conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. It all started from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845.

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In 1819 a financial panic went across the country. The growth in trade that followed the War of 1812 came to a stop. Unemployment mounted, banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and agricultural prices fell by half. This made more need for slaves because you didn’t have to pay them making it easier to grow crops for example.

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Americans believed that it was their destiny to occupy all of North America. The U.S began a rapid expansion to the West. Along this journey they bought land and made a lot of controversial decisions contributing and growing slavery.

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Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845 and became the 28th state. Until 1836, Texas had been part of Mexico, but in that year a group of settlers from the United States who lived in Mexican Texas declared independence. Texas went in as a slave state. This issue of slavery ended up leading to the Mexican-American War.

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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. It made it difficult for free blacks to prove they were not slaves. It penalized free blacks for traveling in southern states.

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The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico.The United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. The trade with Mexico was controversial,  and started conflict over enslavement and helped to inflame the regional differences that eventually led to the Civil War.

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The Mexican Cession transferring California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of four other states to the U.S. This came up with more conflict of what comes in as a slave state and what comes in as a free state. All of this lead up to conflict and diving the country

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The gold rush significantly affected the history of California in the United States. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. This all ended up making a lasting impact on the economic growth.

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Created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists tried to change others votes.

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There are 5 compromises that went on during this time. The first one was adding California into the union as a free state. Second,  Divided to rest of the Mexican Cession into the territories of New Mexico and Utah. Third, they ended slavery in Washington D.C which is a big step in the right direction because this is the capital of our country and shows/represents what our county  believes and stands for. Fourth,  Included a strict, fugitive slave law. The final one was putting a boarder between Texas and Mexico.

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Is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. The demand for cotton roughly doubled each decade following Whitney's invention. So cotton became a very profitable crop that also demanded a growing slave-labor force to harvest it.

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In the treaty Spain gave East and West Florida to the United States, and the United States agreed to assume claims by citizens of the United States against Spain. Florida had become a burden to Spain so the Spanish government decided to sell the territory to the United States

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The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 is a United States federal law that provided that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. It took effect on January 1, 1808. Not only did it drive trade underground, but ships caught illegally trading were often brought into the United States and its passengers sold

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In an effort of trying to keep the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. This is always a topic of debate when a new state wants to join leading to disagreements.

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In 1805, President Jefferson sent explorers Lewis and Clark
to explore the area west of the Mississippi River. They started with the area included in the Louisiana purchase, then went further west. They began in St. Louis, eventually making their way to the Pacific Ocean, crafting detailed maps along the way.

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The Louisiana Purchase was where United States bought this territory from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, they gave this land which ended up being double the size of the United States. They gave up the land so they could focus on Europe. This greatly impacted the country’s power towards the Westwood expansion. There was also debate on wether the president could make a purchase like this which impacted a lot of people opinions on the land.