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Louisiana Purchase
The United States signed a treaty with France for 828,000 square miles for $11,250,000. -
Lewis and Clark Expiditon begins
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Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific
They were actulally in a estuary about 20 miles from the Pacific Ocean, they would eventual reach the Pacific by the middle of the month. -
Joseph Smith's Revolation
Joseph Smith has a version that will led him to creat a new church, the Church of Latter Day Saints; commonly called the Mormons. -
Indian Removal Act
Was signed by Presidnet Andrew Jackson, authorized the president to grant land deads west of the Mississippi. During the fall and winter of 1838-1839 the Cherokees were frocabley removed from their homelands in Georgia and marched acrossed the south to lands in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. -
Gold Discovered in California
Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill, California by James Wilson Marshall. This led to the '49s comming to California to claim their richies.