AMERICAN

EXPANSION TIMELINE QUIZ

Louisiana Purchase

Emancipation Proclamation

Cuban War for Independence

Annexation of Hawaii

Spanish-American War

Philippine Insurrection

Roosevelt Corollary

AMERICAN EXPANSION TIMELINE

. . . . . as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers . . . . .

1803 U.S. President bought an important Southwestern Territory from the French

LOUISIANA PURCHASE

1823 U.S. Presidential document made the Americas off limits to Colonization

MONROE DOCTRINE

AMERICAN EXPANSION TIMELINE

1846

To

1848

Conflict erupted when the U.S. Annexed Texas from Mexico

WAR with MEXICO

1860

To

1865

Conflict erupted in the U.S. over States Rights and Slavery

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

AMERICAN EXPANSION TIMELINE

1863 U.S. President made a Declaration freeing all the Slaves in the United States

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

1868

To

1878

Caribbean Island fought ten year war against Spain

CUBAN WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE

AMERICAN EXPANSION TIMELINE

1868

To

1878

Plantation Owner Sanford B. Dole got

the U.S. to Annex Pacific islands

Annexation of HAWAII

1898-1901

United States joined war for

Cuba’s Independence

SPANISH – AMERICAN WAR

AMERICAN EXPANSION TIMELINE

1899 -1902

United States fought conflict against Nationalists on Pacific Archipelago

PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION

1904 Extension of the Monroe Doctrine makes the U.S. an International

Police Power

ROOSEVELT COROLLARY

1903 -1914 U.S. Provides Ten Million Dollars to build a waterway in Central America

PANAMA CANAL

MEXICAN CONFLICTS TIMELINE 1821 & 1829

1835

1840’s & 1850’s

1846 - 1848

1836

1833

1845

1848

Santa Anna becomes President

of Mexico

Santa Anna ousted from power

Stephen Austin led Texas revolt against

Mexico

Santa Anna leads Mexican fight for

Independence

U.S. & Mexico sign Treaty of Guadalupe

Hidalgo

The United States Annexed Texas United States fought

War with Mexico

Benito Juarez starts Liberal La Reforma

MEXICAN CONFLICTS TIMELINE 1853 - 1855

1861

1867

1862

1858

1864 – 1867

Mexican Conservatives launch rebellions

against Liberal Gov.

Napoleon III of France sent large army to

control Mexico

Benito Juarez became President of

Mexico

Santa Anna was Dictator of Mexico

one final time

Napoleon appoints Austrian Archduke

Maximilian (His Cousin)

to rule over Mexico

1. French Army Leaves

2. Maximilian executed

3. Juarez is re-elected as President of Mexico

MEXICAN CONFLICTS TIMELINE 1872

1911 - 1913

1911 – 1919

Mexican Civil War

Led by two key

Leaders

1917

1876 - 1911

Porfirio Diaz took Control of Mexico

as a Caudillo (Dictator)

New Mexican Constitution was

Adopted

Francesco Madero was President of

Mexico

Benito Juarez died of a Heart Attack

Pancho Villa

Emiliano Zapata