Download 1795-1848 Important dates and information

1795-1852 IMPORTANT DATES
AND INFORMATION
MAIN EVENTS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCES
MAIN EVENT: 1795 PINCKNEY’S TREATY/TREATY
OF SAN LORENZO
• Significance:
• Allowed the United States to
have access to the port of
New Orleans as well as the
Miss. River; this treaty also
avoided war
MAIN EVENT: 1800 TREATY OF SAN ILDEFONSO
• Significance:
• A peaceful transfer of the
Louisiana territory from Spain
to France…this allows the U.S.
to eventually buy it from
France because of
Napoleon’s failed economic
plan in present-day Haiti
MAIN EVENT: 1803 LOUISIANA PURCHASE
• Significance:
• Doubled the size of the
U.S.; the U.S. now owned
all of the Mississippi River
as well as the port of
NOLA without a European
power standing over them
MAIN EVENT: 1804 WILLIAM C.C. CLAIBORNE
APPOINTED TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA
• Significance:
• He became the first
governor when Louisiana
became a state
• He spoke only English and his
people were French and
Spanish; his speeches had to
be written in multiple
languages
MAIN EVENT: 1810 WEST FLORIDA REBELLION
• Significance:
• The United States annexes
West Florida which is one of
the beginning stages of
westward expansion/
manifest destiny
• We are apart of Louisiana
instead of Florida
MAIN EVENT: 1812 LOUISIANA BECOMES A STATE
• Significance:
• LA becomes a part of the
U.S. (18th state) after
years as a colony and
territory
MAIN EVENT: 1812-1815 WAR OF 1812
• Significance:
• Americans felt a sense of
independence after defeating
and kicking a European power out
of the U.S.***
• Patriotism spread throughout the
country with the defeat of the
greatest military power in the
world for a second time
MAIN EVENT: 1815 BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS
• Significance:
• Louisianans felt a sense of unity
after the Battle of New
Orleans***
• Americans felt a sense of
independence after defeating
and kicking a European power out
of the U.S.***
MAIN EVENT: 1819 ADAMS-ONIS TREATY
• Significance:
• Eliminates what use to be
a neutral strip in west LA;
U.S. again buys land from
a foreign country now
gaining Florida
MAIN EVENT: 1820 MISSOURI COMPROMISE
• Significance:
• It made Missouri a slave
state and entered Maine
as a free state to the
Union which further
divided the country on the
issue of slavery
MAIN EVENT: 1828 ANDREW JACKSON ELECTED
PRESIDENT
• Significance:
• His victory at the battle of
new Orleans propels him to
the White House; one of his
legacies was the Indian
Removal Act of 1830 which
resulted in the Trail of Tears
killing thousands of Native
Americans
MAIN EVENT: 1836 TEXAS INDEPENDENCE FROM
MEXICO
• Significance:
• Citizens of different parts of
the U.S. came to aid the
Texans against Mexico;
Inspired the popular phrase
“Remember the Alamo” which
led to the Mexican-American
War eventually
MAIN EVENT: 1846 MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
BEGAN
• Significance:
• The U.S. gains the
territory/states of Texas,
California and many others
and sets the Texas boundary
at the Rio Grande river which
remains today
• (*LA served as staging area)
MAIN EVENT: 1847 BATON ROUGE SELECTED AS
STATE CAPITAL
• Significance:
• Throughout history three
different cities have served as
the capital of Louisiana but
Baton Rouge remains that
capital today
MAIN EVENT: 1848 ZACHARY TAYLOR ELECTED AS
PRESIDENT
• Significance:
• He is the only person from
Louisiana to ever be
elected President of the
United States
MAIN EVENT: 1852 CONSTITUTION OF 1852
ADOPTED
• Significance:
• Gave more power to parishes
with large slave populations which
resulted in white landowners with
many non-voting slaves to
dominate the legislative process
and would later result in the
Louisiana taking sides with the
Confederacy