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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was apart of the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. -
War of 1812
The immediate causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, -
Indian Removal Act
These actions led as well to the forced removal of several Native American groups who had not voluntarily ceded their land holdings. Soldiers and government officials forced several of the southern tribes, like the Cherokee, to Oklahoma on the infamous Trail of Tears. -
California Gold Rush
The Gold Rush was one of the most significant events in California history. It brought people from all over the United States and the world in search for gold. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.
