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The Alamo
The compound was one of the early Spanish missions in Texas, built for the education of area Native Americans after their conversion to Christianity. In 1793, the mission was secularized and then abandoned. Ten years later, it became a fortress. -
Tecumseh
American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and became an ally of Britain in the War of 1812 -
Louisiana Purchase
Aquired land of the Louisiana terriory by the U.S from France. -
Clermont Steamboat
The North River Steamboat or North River is widely regarded as the world's first vessel to demonstrate the viability of using steam propulsion for commercial water transportation. -
Oregon Trail
An emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. -
Seminole Wars
They were the largest conflicts in the United States between the War of 1812 and the American Civil War. -
Spanish Cession
In 1819 a treaty was signed in which Spain agreed to cede, or give, Florida to the United States. In return, the U.S. agreed to pay $5 million which the Spanish government owed to American citizens. Thus, all of Florida was added to a growing United States. -
Santa Fe Trail
transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. -
Erie Canal Opens
The Erie Canal connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean- Hudson River -
Trail of Tears
A trail that led Native Americans into the west, over the Mississippi river after the U.S Gov pushed them out. -
Indian Removal Act
was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. 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. -
Prophetstown
Prophetstown was named for Wabokieshiek (White Cloud), the prophet who lived upon the land. Wabokieshiek served as an advisor to Black Hawk and took part in the Black Hawk War. -
The Treaty of Echota
a treaty signed on December 29, 1835, in New Echota, Georgia by officials of the United States government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction, the Treaty Party. -
Jim Bowie
19th-century American pioneer, who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo. -
First Telegraph
Sent by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse on May 24, 1844, over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, the message said: "What hath God wrought?" Taken from the Bible, Numbers 23:23, and recorded on a paper tape, the phrase had been suggested to Morse by Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend. The success of the experiment would change forever the national communication system. -
Texas Statehood
In December of 1845, Texas became the 28th state of the United States of America. As early as 1836, Texan voters had chosen overwhelmingly to support annexation. But opposition in the U.S. was strong, and the annexation of Texas came only after years of heavy debate. -
Donner Party
a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846. Delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the pioneers resorted to cannibalism to survive. -
Oregon Treaty
The treaty was signed on June 15, 1846. The Oregon Treaty set the U.S. and British North American border at the 49th parallel with the exception of Vancouver Island, which was retained in its entirety by the British. -
Mexican Cession
a historical name in the United States for the region of the modern day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. -
Sutter's Mill
A sawmill in California where gold and silver was found during the Gold Rush. -
Oregon Territory
The land was divided between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1846. -
Gasden Purchase
a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853 by James Gadsden who was the American ambassador to Mexico at that time. -
Civil War
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy -
Arizona Statehood
Arizona was home to numerous Native American Tribes. In the Mexican–American War (1847), the US occupied Mexico City and pursued its claim to much of northern Mexico, including what later became Arizona. -
Alaska Purchased
the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl. -
First Transcontinental Railroad
contiguous railroad line constructed in the United States between 1863 and 1869 west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa. -
Golden Spike
The golden spike (also known as The Last Spike[1]) 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 on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory -
Battle of Little Big Horn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to Lakota as the Battle of the Greasy Grass,[1] and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
On the morning of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota. One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it.[7] A scuffle over the rifle escalated, and a shot was fired which resulted in the 7th Cavalry opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their fellow soldiers. The Lakota warri
