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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