The Gadsden Purchase Treaty

It was June 16 in 1858, at the Illinois Republican convention in Springfield. Lincoln just started off his bid for the U.S. Senate with a big speech. That speech is called the "House Divided" speech. He believed that the recent Supreme Court decision on Dred Scott was a big part of the Democratic. That was lead legalized slavery in all states The court 's decision was that Dred Scott had to live in a free state and remain as a slave.

The Kingdom of Hawaii was of great interest to several countries during the early eighteen hundreds. The chain of islands are strategically placed in the Pacific ocean, the land is great for growing many types of crops, and adding more land to territories was of huge importance during this time for many nations looking to expand their power. The possibility of gaining a hold over the the Hawaiian islands was significant to numerous nations such as the United States, Great Britain, and France. Getting the rights to have a place in the Kingdom of Hawaii was an ongoing race that was won in 1875 with the signing of the Treaty of Reciprocity. The Treaty of Reciprocity of 1875 was an exclusive free trade agreement between the United States and

In 1858 Stephen Douglas a spokesman for the Democratic Party, was seeking reelection to a third term in the U.S. Senate, and Abraham Lincoln was running for Douglas’s Senate seat as a Republican. Douglas and Lincoln traveled across the state of Illinois in a series of debates hitting seven of the nine Congressional Districts. Douglas and Lincoln each took turns discussing party politics, the future of the nation, and the most important topic slavery. Who won the debates, is the question that is still being asked in the year 2016. Through my own personal study and review of The Lincolns Douglas Debates, it is my personal opinion that Stephen Douglas not Abraham Lincoln won the debates because of how the election system was set up in 1858, by

DBQ: Political Disputes 1820-1860 For forty-four years, the United States of America was a thriving country. We had won our independence from Great Britain and we had started to create a country that would change the world. Yet, in the year 1860, a joined country and political agreement between all states seemed utterly impossible. People fought with each other so deeply about slavery, the country was divided between slave and free states. By the time of 1820 through 1860, political disagreement grew so large, there had been only one answer.

The Louisiana Purchase was one of the many significant events that happened during 1800 through 1812. Other critical incidents also took place, but I chose this one, which happened during 1803, for it’s amazing surprise of us only asking for a small bit of land, but Napoleon instead offering to sell us the Louisiana territory. We purchased the territory, gaining a large amount of mass for this young nation. Of course, that lead to Lewis and Clark exploring the mysterious land, but that’s a different

Kansa Indians referred to themselves as one of two groups, the Wind People or the Keepers of the Pipe, but the winds of change affected them just as anybody else. The Kansa Indians were a fierce and adaptable person because the changes they encountered required those aspects. The winds of change, however; can whittle even the hardiest boulders. The Kansas faced many different challenges and changes to the way they lived. William E. Unrau rout The Kansa Indians: A History of the Wind People, 1673-1873 which detailed the victories and the defeats that resulted from these changes.

Stephen Douglas, an advocate of popular sovereignty, and Abraham Lincoln, a Republican candidate, were both running to represent Illinois in the United States Senate. These two men met in a sequence of seven debates before they battled for office of presidency in the election of 1858. Slavery eventually became the main issue discussed repeatedly in each of the debates, due to the Mexican War adding new territories left to be assessed as free soil or not. During this time, the Compromise of 1850 was a temporary fix to the sectional issues for the states that made the decision to participate in the extension of slavery. However, the Missouri Compromise of 1854 brought the issue back up again.

Jay’s Treaty was negotiated by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay that was signed between America and Great Britain on November 19, 1794. Conflicts between the two countries had risen after the Revolutionary War end. They fought over the British military posts that were still located in America 's northwestern territory even though the American Revolution ended, and they also fought over the British interference with American trade and American shipping vessels. Jay was only partly successful in getting Britain to fulfill America 's desires. President George Washington felt it was best for America to stop war with Great Britain, so as a result Jay’s Treaty passed the Senate and was approved.

Events such as Harpers ferry, The Lecompton Constitution, and the debate between Lincoln and Douglas heightened sectional conflicts. White abolitionist, John Brown, initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over the United States weaponry , at Harper 's Ferry Virginia. The Lecompton Constitution allowed Kansas to be admitted into the Union as a slave State which brought more conflicts between the North and the South. Lincoln 's and Douglas debate was a debate in a campaign for one of Illinois two United States senate seats. The main issues discussed in all seven debates was slavery.

Competing with Stephen Douglas, he was in the election to become the Senator of Illinois. This state election took place in 1858. He debated with Douglas face to face. There were seven debates held in Illinois. Stephen Douglas also supported the Freedom Doctrine.

The Lincoln-Douglas debates were in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Their wasn’t only one debate but their was seven, each challenging each other ideas. But not of the debates were actually debates. The main topic was slavery and its future in the United States. The main idea for these debates were to help their parties but ended up attracting several thousands of people to watch.

Mesilla or south Arizona had large deposits of gold and Euro-American worried that the occupation of the French and their creation of cities would make them owners of the land area. President Franklin Pierce, therefore, appointed James Gadsden to negotiate purchase as land as possible in the northern Mexico/south Arizona area. In the end, the United States literally threatened Mexico into selling g the land of more than 45000 acres for 10 million dollars. The purchase was officially signed in 1854 by president Franklin Pierce and granted the USA sovereignty of the southern tips of Arizona and some northern parts of New Mexico. The significance was once again an increment in the size of land for the United States.

These lands were taken from them in spite of the Fort Laramie treaty signed in 1851 and agreed to by both the Lakota and the U.S. government in which the U.S. government formally recognized Lakota ownership of the Black Hills and the surrounding area as well as allocating to the Sioux almost all of the present states of South Dakota and Nebraska, along with portions of North Dakota, Kansas, Montana, and Wyoming. This treaty was shortly broken by the U.S. upon the discovery of gold and silver in the region, thereby prompting the U.S. government to construct a series of forts along what became known as the Bozeman Trail in order to secure passage through Sioux territory to the nearby mines (Churchill, 1990).

The outcome of the Mexican-American War led to the Treaty of Guadalupe, the Gadsden Purchase,

During the transition from George Washington, to Thomas Jefferson’s election, the U.S began to expand its foreign policy. The U.S Foreign Policy began to transition during after the election of Thomas Jefferson; though Britain was still bitter, and refused to create a commercial treaty or even merely ratify it’s Navigation Laws. While Britain continued to refuse to trade, Spain was just as inhospitable. Due to Thomas Jefferson’s election, the Louisiana Purchase was made (1803), the Embargo Act of 1807 was established, as well as the Non- Intercourse Act, Amid to George Washington’s farewell address, he warned the country regarding foreign relations, alliances, and foreign nations.