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The Louisiana purchase
The Louisiana purchase was made in 1802 by president Tomas Jefferson. It gave us the power of the Mississippi River. It also doubled the size of Louisiana. -
Lewis and Clark Journey
The Lewis and Clark Journey is important to us because they explored land, found resources, and most importantly 300 new plant, and animal species. -
The Donner Party
The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating the bodies of those who had succumbed to starvation and sickness.
The Donner Party departed Missouri on the Oregon Trail in the spring of 1846.
