#Territorial-Expansion
Events indexed under #Territorial-Expansion — 15 entries in the record.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-18 | Putin Formally Signs Treaty Annexing Crimea, Escalating International Conflict Vladimir Putin · Sergey Aksyonov · Joe Biden · Angela Merkel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1898-07-07 | Hawaii Annexation - U.S. Legitimizes Corporate Coup Against Monarchy William McKinley · Sanford B. Dole · Queen Liliuokalani · Sugar plantation owners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1898-04-25 | Spanish-American War Begins - Imperial Expansion Under Humanitarian Pretext William McKinley · Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Navy · Spanish Empire · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1853-03-04 | Pierce Inauguration Falsely Claims Slavery Question Settled While Planning Expansion Franklin Pierce · Stephen A. Douglas · Democratic Party · Slave Power | confirmed | |
| 1846-08-08 | Wilmot Proviso Triggers Sectional Crisis Over Slavery in Conquered Mexican Territory David Wilmot · James K. Polk · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1846-05-13 | Mexican-American War Begins as Deliberate Land Grab for Slavery Expansion James K. Polk · U.S. Congress · Mexico · Whig Party opposition · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1846-05-11 | Polk Deceives Congress into War Declaration with False American Blood Claims James K. Polk · Zachary Taylor · U.S. Congress · Abraham Lincoln · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1845-01-01 | Manifest Destiny Ideology Provides Racist Justification for Territorial Conquest and Indigenous Genocide John L. O'Sullivan · James K. Polk · U.S. government · Indigenous peoples · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1844-03-01 | Tyler Administration Conducts Secret Texas Annexation Negotiations to Expand Slavery John Tyler · Abel P. Upshur · John C. Calhoun · Isaac Van Zandt | confirmed | |
| 1843-10-16 | Tyler Begins Secret Texas Annexation Talks to Strengthen Slave Power John Tyler · Abel P. Upshur · Isaac Van Zandt · Slave Power | confirmed | |
| 1820-03-03 | Missouri Compromise Institutionalizes Slavery Expansion Through Sectional Bargaining Henry Clay · James Monroe · U.S. Congress · Slave Power advocates | confirmed | |
| 1819-02-22 | Adams-Onís Treaty Acquires Florida Through Coerced Spanish Cession After Jackson's Unauthorized Invasion Secretary of State John Quincy Adams · Spanish Minister Luis de Onís · President James Monroe · General Andrew Jackson | confirmed | |
| 1817-11-21 | First Seminole War Begins as Jackson Invades Spanish Florida to Recapture Enslaved People General Andrew Jackson · Seminole Nation · Black Seminoles · Spanish Empire · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1803-10-20 | Louisiana Purchase Demonstrates Jefferson Constitutional Hypocrisy and Executive Power Expansion President Thomas Jefferson · Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin · U.S. Senate · Napoleon Bonaparte · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1787-07-13 | Northwest Ordinance Prohibits Slavery While Mandating Fugitive Slave Returns Continental Congress · Nathan Dane · Southern state delegates · Slaveholders | confirmed |