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Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears were trails that were created by Native Americans being forced to be relocated from Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida and was moved to Mississippi. The Native Americans were forced out of their homes and sent to walk in a group of a thousand Natives per group, led by the U.S. Army. They had to cross hundreds of miles of land, no matter the weather, and had to cross lots of rivers, including the Mississippi River. Hundreds of natives died along the way. T -
The Alamo
The Alamo was built by Spanish settlers around 1718 which housed Native Americans converts. In the early 1800`s, Spanish troops were stationed there for a former mission. Eventually, in December of 1835, Texas wanted to gain independence and break off from Mexico. By February of 1836, Sam Houston made and army of only 200 men, and one of those men was Davy Crockett. On the 23rd of February, they faced off the Mexican army which ranged from 1,800-6,000 men. They fought for 13 days, and on March 6 -
Manifest Destiny
The idea of Manifest Destiny began in the 1840`s. It was the Anglo-Saxon Americans mission to expand themselves across North America. It was also mentioned in John O` Sullivan`s article. John O` Sullivan said that it was their destiny to spread across North America assigned by Providence. They eventually spread out to the Oregon Territory, California, Southwestern Mexico, and in the 1850`s Cuba. It was originally a Democratic Issue, but eventually gained Republicans. In the photo below -
The Donner Party
The Donner party was a group of eighty-nine emigrants that set off on a two-thousand five-hundred mile journey from Springfield, Illinois to California. The party found a shorter route to California used it. As they rode through the Sierra Nevada`s, winter started to set in. They got caught in a snow storm and had to stop. The snow fell and people started dying. So eventually, they ran out of food and started eating each other. Eventually, the storm passed and forty-five people survived and made -
Brigham Young
Brigham Young was a man who joined the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1832. He eventually joined the other Mormons on their march to regain land. They believe he had about twenty wives and forty-seven children. He eventually was ordained an apostle in 1835 and helped direct the Mormons removal from the state of Missouri to Illinois. When he returned from Britain, he was put in charge of large business operations in the church. Eventually, in 1844, Joseph Smith was assassinated and Brigham Young -
The Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War was a war between the United States and Mexico to gain Texas and other various states. The war lasted for four years, and it was the first war that the United States had fought on foreign land. Since Texas gained its independence from Mexico in 1836, Mexico had been very upset about losing any more land. Eventually after many attacks using guerilla warfare, Santa Anna resigned form his position and finally on February 2, 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed a -
Gold Rush
The Gold Rush sparked the U.S expansion to the West, upon the discovery of gold nuggets in the American River along the Sierra Nevadas in January 1948. News spread quickly of the discovery and within six months, nearly 4000 men had arrived in the area. Many men borrowed money, and spent their entire life savings to make the difficult journey to California.By the end of 1949, the non-native population of California was nearly 100,000, compared to 800 in March of 1848. As a result of this mass
