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Louisiana Purchase
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Market Revolution
A drastic change in the manual labor system in which traditional comerce was made obsolete by improvements in transportation and communication. -
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Sam Houstan
He was a nineteenth-century American statesman, politician, and soldier. He is best known for his leading role in bringing Texas into the United States. -
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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent. -
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Davey Crockett
An avid hunter, and well known for his oratory skills, Davey Crockett was a multi- faceted man who died in the Battle of Alamo. -
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Brigham Young
He was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. -
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Start of Lewis and Clark Expedition
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War of 1812
War between the US and the British Empire. -
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Erie Canal
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Adams-Onis Treaty
The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819,[1] also known as the Transcontinental Treaty or the Purchase of Florida,[2] was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. -
Founding of the City of Lowell
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Transcontinental Railroad
The first railroad to run accross the width of the united states is completed. -
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Sitting Bull
A holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies. -
McCormick Reaper
Cyrus McCormick is granted a patent for his invention of a horse-drawn mechanical reaper to harvest grain. -
Texan Revolt
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Battle of the Alamo
A pivotal battle in the Texas Revolution. -
Statehood for Texas
Following the Texas Rebellion, US added Texas as a state. -
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Buffalo Bill
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman -
US declares war on Mexico
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Bear Flag Revolt
The California Bear Flag was first raised in Sonoma, California in 1846 by rebellious
white settlers, who declared independence for California, in what came to be known as
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California Gold Rush
Gold Rush when John Sutter accidentantly discovered nuggets of gold on his land. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
the peace treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War (1846–48). -
Gadsden Purchase
Region of Arizona and a part of New Mexico that was bought by the US. -
Homestead Act
Gave free farms to families base on their family size. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
An agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, signed in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, -
Golden Spike
The "Golden Spike" is the ceremonial final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads -
Samuel F.B. Morse
Inventor of the single wire telegraph as well as co-inventor of Morse code. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
A battle between Native Americans and American settlers led by the famous indian chief, Sitting Bull. Natives defeated the Americans. -
Dawes Act
It was an act adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Ghost Dance
It was a new religious movement which was incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. -
The 11th US Census
Distrubtion of population resulted in the disapparance of the American frontier. -
Wounded Knee
The site of two conflicts between the native americans and the americans. On December 29th, men women and children were killed in a massacre. It was the last battle of the American indian wars. -
Turner Thesis
Historian Frederick Jackson Turner believed that the strength and the vitality of the America identity lay in its land and vast frontier.
