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Eli Whitney
Learned about cotton-production and what difficulties farmers had faced trying to make a living. Farmers had to take the seeds out by hand. In 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent and formed a cotton gin manufacturing company. Some plantation owners constructed their own cotton gin and they overruled his model of it. The cotton gin helped strengthen slavery in the South because of the farmers earning more money which made them get more crops and more crops required more people. -
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone had gotten to America was that him and his family had fled to America because of religious persecution. The reason why was because the oldest of his brothers married Non-Quakers and then got disowned and was kicked out. They traveled and traveled until they purchased land around Mocksville. The trail he used is the wilderness road, and he helped establish Kentucky. He became famous when “The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky” came out around 1784. -
Louisiana Purchase
France began establishing settlements around the Mississippi River Valley. The French had given up Louisiana to Spain and had to move mostly all of the North American holdings to Great Britain. Spain began to be an ally with France. Spain signed a secret treaty for Louisiana. In 1803, the French asked if the United States was interested in purchasing the Louisiana Territory. -
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Lewis & Clark Expedition
Starting near St. Louis the men had an extremely rough travel, going through dangerous water and weather, went through days without food or water, facing illness and injury. In late 1805, they reached the Pacific Ocean and built Fort Clatsop, spending the winter in what is now Oregon. -
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War of 1812
President James Madison signed the declaration into law and the war begins. After signed, President James MAdison waited a few months for the war to be in effect and launched a three-point invasion and all of them were unsuccessful. In 1814, the British were able to gain more military resources which resulted in the British burning the White House, the Capitol, and other government buildings. The treaty of Ghent was signed in December of 1814, between the U.S. and British. -
Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
(1830's)
Around 125,000 Indians were living on many acres of land including, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida.Most Americans were feared by the Indians that they had came upon. George Washington wanted them to be able to speak, read and write English, they were known as the “Five Civilized Tribes”. Andrew Jackson became president and signed the Indian Removal Act. The Indians moved on foot without any supplies or help. Thousand of people died along the way. -
Texas Revolution
Also known as the Texas War of Independence, many years there had been much struggle like military conflict between the government of the Mexicans and Americans in the Texas region. Finally, they erupted into a large battle called the Texas Rebellion, with the American army, defeating a large part of the Mexican army in the Battle of San Jacinto. -
Oregon Trail
The first wagon that left departed in Elm Grove, Missouri. The Oregon Territory, the US wasn’t able to get that piece of land until 1846. The “Great Emigration”, a wagon train than can hold 1,000 settlers and cattle started down the trail from Independence, Missouri. They gained supplies at Fort Boise for their journey and finally made it into Oregon. The Great Emigration arrived in October, making their 2,000 miles to Oregon in five months. -
John Fremont
John Charles Fremont was an American military officer, explorer, politician, and western explorer who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. He also explored the Mexican and California border. He arrives at the Great Salt Lake, just one of the many little destinations that he will stop at. He was a mapmaker and his major expedition was an 1842 survey of the Platte River for the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers. -
Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand their civilization throughout North America. It wasn’t for the price of land but for more progress throughout the land and economic opportunity. The way this came about was people desiring to be in Oregon Territory, California, and Mexican land. -
The Donner Party
Nine wagons (89 people plus 31 members of the Donner and Reed family) had set out to California on a 2,500 mile journey, starting at Springfield, Illinois. The people followed the wrong directions and it ended with them on the trail for 18 more days. The emigrants ran into terrible weather like snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and was stuck in the cold weather. More than half of the people didn’t make it because of the conditions that they had to face along the way. -
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The Mexican War
This was a war between the U.S and Mexico. The war began on April 25 whenever the Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers killing around a dozen. It was the first U.S. armed conflict because President James K. Polk believed that the United States had a “Manifest Destiny.” He believed that the U.S. was needing to spread their land across the Pacific Ocean. It resulted in the Mexican territory extending westward by 500,000 miles. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Narcissa was born into a deeply religious Presbyterian family in upstate New York and wanted to have a career in the missionary field. Marcus was also from New York and wanted to be a missionary. They had never met before but whenever he came back, they decided to marry fast. Their infant daughter had drowned so he left and was apart of the Great Emigration on the Oregon Trail. Narcissa and Marcus Whitman, were murdered by Cayuse Indians when a measles epidemic broke out at the mission. -
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The California Gold Rush
James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The first to hear was Oregon, the Sandwich Islands, and the Latin American, which sparked the Gold Rush. Thousands of gold miners traveled there to get gold. About two billion dollars worth of gold was extracted from the area during this time. -
The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)
A great battle between Native Americans and American settlers occurred, known as the Battle of Little Bighorn. Led by Indian Chief Sitting Bull and several others, the Natives managed to defeat the Americans. The Americans were led by Colonel George Armstrong Custer, him and his men were all wiped out because of them attempting to control the Great Plains and put all of the other Indians in the reservations. Federal troops against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. -
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
The last battle of the American Indian War, The Sioux Chief Big Foot and some 350 of his followers camped on the banks of Wounded Knee creek. Surrounding their camp was a force of U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors. The U.S. regiments killed a mass number of American Indians including women and children. This concluded the war.