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=== List of major territorial acquisitions & treaties === | === List of major territorial acquisitions & treaties === | ||
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* 1818 '''Treaty of 1818''' | * 1818 '''Treaty of 1818''' | ||
** Britain ceded land northwest of the Northwest Territory (western modern MN and north & east ND) | ** Britain ceded land northwest of the Northwest Territory (western modern MN and north & east ND) | ||
** US ceded lands north of the 49th parallel above modern MT | ** US ceded lands north of the 49th parallel above modern MT | ||
** established the 49th parallel as the border of US and Canada | ** established the 49th parallel as the border of US and Canada | ||
* 1819 '''Adams-Onis Treaty''' | |||
** Spain ceded Florida to the US | |||
* 1842 '''Webster–Ashburton Treaty''' | * 1842 '''Webster–Ashburton Treaty''' | ||
** settled border disputes along modern US-Canadian border, including in the modern states of ME, MN, MT, ID & WA (reaffirming the 49th parallel) | ** settled border disputes along modern US-Canadian border, including in the modern states of ME, MN, MT, ID & WA (reaffirming the 49th parallel) |
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US History concept chart major concepts & themes across US History
Objective:
- overview of core ideas for understanding historical times, persons, places, and events in U.S. History
Index
U.S. History course pages:
Concepts & Themes[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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BIG IDEAS What does it MEAN?
connections
causality
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"The American Experience"[edit | edit source]
colonialism & push-pull factors[edit | edit source]
>> build out American colonial perceptions viz Britain[edit | edit source]
Enlightenment ideas[edit | edit source]Declaration of Independence[edit | edit source]self-governance/ self-government[edit | edit source]
faction & disagreement[edit | edit source]
Constitution[edit | edit source]
Bill of Rights[edit | edit source]
Electoral College[edit | edit source]Two-party system[edit | edit source]slavery[edit | edit source]
"frontier" western expansion[edit | edit source]
List of major territorial acquisitions & treaties[edit | edit source]
religious awakenings[edit | edit source]
politics & democracy[edit | edit source]
dissent[edit | edit source]reform movements[edit | edit source]
economics[edit | edit source]
panics, recessions, depressions[edit | edit source]
private v public lives of Americans[edit | edit source] |