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Lewis and Clark Expedition
President Thomas Jefferson guided a splendid piece of foreign diplomacy through the U.S. Senate. After the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was mad, Jefferson initiated an exploration of the newly purchased land and the territory beyond the great rock mountains -
Louisiana Purchase
It was a land deal between the United States and France. The U.S. acquired approzimately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars. -
War of 1812
The United States took on the greatest naval power in the world. Causes of the war included British attemts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy's impressment of AMerican seamen and America's desire to expnad it's territory. -
Manifest Destiny
Expansion westward seemed perfectly natural to many americans in the mid-nineteenth century. -
John Fremont
American military officer and an early explorer and mapmaker of the American West, who ws one of the prinipals figures in opening up the region to settlement and was instrumental in the U.S. conquest and development of California. -
Daniel Boone (Kentucky)
He left home on a military expedition during the French and Indian War. He faced Indian resistance. He died in Femme Osage Creek, Missouri. -
Cotton gin and Eli Whitney
A machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seed from cotton fiber. -
The Trail of Tears-The Indian Removals
Indian policy caused the President little political trouble because his primary supporters were from the southern and western states and generally favored a plan to remove all the Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River. -
Texas Revolution
Clashes between official forces and groups of colonists. -
Mexican War
The conflict between the United States and Mexican had roots in the annexation of Texas and the westward thrust of American settlers. -
The Donner Party Tragedy
Nine covered wagons left Springfield, Illinois on the 2500 mile journey to California. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Both from upstat New york. Althought the Whitmans ministered to both, most of the white children, died. -
Gold Rush
Arguably one of the most significant events to shape American History during the first half of the 19th century. -
The Oregon Trail
Most of the encoutrers with Native Americans were sinple business transactions.
