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Tecumseh
He was the Shawnee leader of a Pan-Indian confederation. -
Louisiana Purchase
U.S. purchase of louisiana territory. -
Clermont Steamboat Built
Robert Fulton directed the construction of a steamboat in New York in 1807. -
Prophetstown
It was the site of the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe. -
Oregon Trail
a 2,200-mile historic east–west large-wheeled wagon route. -
Seminole Wars
were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole -
Spanish Cession
The colonies of East Florida and West Florida remained loyal to the British during the war for American independence. -
Santa Fe Trail
transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico -
Erie Canal Opens
is a canal in New York that is part of the east-west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System. -
First Telegraph
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse. -
Indian Removal Act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. -
Trail Of Tears
the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
Treaty of New Echota
It cost three men their lives and provided the legal basis for the Trail of Tears -
The Alamo
A pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. -
Jim Bowie
He is mainly remembered for his part in the Battle of the Alamo -
Texas Statehood
When Texas became a state. -
Oregon Territory
the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon -
Oregon Treaty
Oregon Treaty was signed on June 15th 1846. -
Donner Party
There was no food, so the people ate each other -
Sutter's Mill
A gold mine in California, owned by john sutter. -
Mexican Cession
The mexican cession got it's name in the United States for the region of the modern day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. -
California Statehood
When California became a state. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is a roughly 30,000 square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. -
Civil War
It determined the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. -
Alaska Purchase
The U.S. reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million on March 30, 1867 -
First Continental Railroad
linking the well developed railway network of the Eastern coast with rapidly growing California. -
Golden Spike
It represents the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad -
Little Bighorn
the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota -
Arizona Statehood
When Arizona became a state
