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In his 1823 State of the Union message, United States President James Monroe addressed several important domestic and foreign policy matters, but the most notable aspect of this address was the articulation of what became known as the Monroe Doctrine. In this doctrine, Monroe warned European powers against further colonization in the Americas ...
February 3 – Jackson Male Academy, precursor of Union University, opens in Tennessee.; February 28 – Johnson v.McIntosh decided in the Marshall Court, a landmark Supreme Court decision relating to aboriginal title in the United States.
The Treaty of Moultrie Creek, also known as the Treaty with the Florida Tribes of Indians, was an agreement signed in 1823 between the government of the United States and the chiefs of several groups and bands of Native Americans living in the present-day state of Florida.
Signed on April 12, 1844, was framed to induct Texas into the Union as a territory. 1844 – Treaty of Wanghia – between the U.S. and Qing Dynasty. Establishes five U.S. treaty ports in China with extraterritoriality. Imposes the first unequal treaty on the dynasty. 1846 – Mallarino–Bidlack Treaty with the Republic of New Granada
The Legislature met at the Old State Capitol in Albany on January 7, 1823, and adjourned on April 24. Peter R. Livingston (Buckt.) was elected Speaker with 117 votes out of 123. On January 27, the Senate rejected the re-appointment of Chief Justice Ambrose Spencer and Associate Supreme Court Justices Jonas Platt and John Woodworth ; and ...
A contemporary map of the reservation assigned to the Seminole Indians in the Treaty of Moultrie Creek. By the Treaty of Moultrie Creek in 1823, the Seminoles had relinquished all claims to land in the Florida Territory in return for a reservation in the center of the Florida peninsula and certain payments, supplies and services to be provided by the U.S. government, guaranteed for twenty years.
The first page of Jefferson's rough draft. Thomas Jefferson preserved a four-page draft that late in life he called the "original Rough draft". [5] [6] Known to historians as the Rough Draft, early students of the Declaration believed that this was a draft written alone by Jefferson and then presented to the Committee of Five drafting committee.
To the astonishment of the alliance, a substantial minority of New England voted for the final bill, on the grounds that the principle of protection was of enormous value. The bill passed the house 105 to 94 on April 23 and passed the Senate 26 to 21 on May 13. President Adams signed it and the tariff became law. Adams became a hated man in the ...