Timeline

US Territory 1789-1900 Timeline

1789: George Washington became the First President and the start of United States as an independent country. Most settlements are Eastern Coast lands and East of Mississippi River.

1803: President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase which double the size of the US over night.

1820: Missouri Compromise

1840's: Many American settlements in California and the years of the Gold Rush.

1845: Texas Annexation to the US, making it the 28th state of US.

1846: US territories in the Oregon region started to grow

1846: Wilmot Proviso which s proposal that prohibit slavery in territory that will gain after the Mexican-American War.

1848: US gained the lands in the Southwest Region after the Mexican-American War. These Southwest Region is composed of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, and New Mexico.

1850: Compromise of 1850 resulted to California being a Free State but Fugitive Slave Act must be followed in the North. The new states would decide popular sovereignty for their new territories. 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act, which open Kansas and Nebraska territories for settlements. 1865: Southern Territories started to be rebuild again after the Civil War.

1898: US gained Cuba, Puerto Rico, Pacific Islands and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.