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17 de abr. de 2024 · Focus on Westward Expansion. In US history, the period of settlement 1800–50 when Americans pushed the frontier westwards in search of land and resources, economic opportunities, a better life, and, for some, religious freedom.
17 de abr. de 2024 · "Further Resources" section for each entry provides a gateway to additional research opportunities. Provides in-depth descriptions of important events, including trends, movements, conflicts, and diplomatic efforts that shaped America in the first half of the nineteenth century.
7 de may. de 2024 · Mexican-American War, war between the U.S. and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It was caused by a territorial dispute stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from contention over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River or the Rio Grande.
- The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. Won by the Americans and dam...
- The concept of Manifest Destiny held that the United States had the providential right to expand to the Pacific Ocean. In 1845 the U.S. annexed the...
- Democrats, especially those in the Southwest, strongly favoured the Mexican-American War. Most Whigs, however, viewed the war as conscienceless lan...
- Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the Mexican-American War, the United States gained more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 s...
- The Mexican-American War reopened the slavery-extension issue, which divided the North and South and which had been largely dormant since the Misso...
24 de abr. de 2024 · On December 20, 1860, a special convention called in South Carolina unanimously passed an ordinance of secession. Mississippi , Florida , Alabama , Georgia , and Louisiana followed in January, and Texas voted to secede on February 1, 1861—still more than a month before Lincoln was actually inaugurated.
25 de abr. de 2024 · In 1820, a bitter debate over the federal government’s right to restrict slavery over Missouri’s application for statehood ended in a compromise: Missouri was admitted to...
Hace 4 días · Background. Early revolutionary activity. Revolutions of 1848–1849 and First Italian War of Independence. Towards the Kingdom of Italy. Third War of Independence (1866) Rome. Problems. Historiography. Risorgimento and Italian irredentism. Anniversary of the unification of Italy. Culture and Risorgimento.
5 de may. de 2024 · September 2014. In June 2014, Humanities Texas held institutes in San Antonio and Denton examining significant events and themes of the Civil War era. The "America in the 1860s" institutes covered topics central to the state's eighth-grade social studies curriculum.
