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A modern photograph of the Willamette Valley, ceded to the United States in the 1855 Kalapuya Treaty. The Treaty with the Kalapuya, etc., also known as the Kalapuya Treaty or the Treaty of Dayton, was an 1855 treaty between the United States and the bands of the Kalapuya tribe, the Molala tribe, the Clackamas, and several others in the Oregon Territory.
German Empire, 1879–80 (Treaty) [13] Portugal, May 5, 1882 (Provisional Convention) [ 14 ] United States of America, December 6, 1884 (Supplementary Convention) [ 15 ]
1776 – Model Treaty passed by the Continental Congress becomes the template for its future international treaties [6] 1776 – Treaty of Watertown – a military treaty between the newly formed United States and the St. John's and Mi'kmaq First Nations of Nova Scotia, two peoples of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
The result was the multiculturalism of Hawaii and a wedge for Americans and Europeans to use in order to exert economic and political influence over Hawaii. Late 19th Century: S ugar success sets ...
After the outbreak of the American Civil War, the Kingdom of Hawaii under King Kamehameha IV declared its neutrality on August 26, 1861. [1] [2] However, many Native Hawaiians and Hawaii-born Americans (mainly descendants of the American missionaries), abroad and in the islands, enlisted in the military regiments of various states in the Union and the Confederacy.
This treaty was signed one year after the US has expanded its territorial base to the Pacific coast of North America, making the two countries "neighbors". The first United States Minister to Hawaii (diplomatic rank roughly equivalent to a modern Ambassador) was David L. Gregg, who became minister to Hawaii in 1853. [1]
The Kalapuya are a Native American people, which had eight independent groups speaking three mutually intelligible dialects.The Kalapuya tribes' traditional homelands were the Willamette Valley of present-day western Oregon in the United States, an area bounded by the Cascade Range to the east, the Oregon Coast Range at the west, the Columbia River at the north, to the Calapooya Mountains of ...
McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii on July 7, 1898, creating the Territory of Hawaii. On February 22, 1900, the Hawaiian Organic Act established a territorial government. Annexation opponents held that this was illegal, claiming the Queen was the only legitimate ruler.