Western Expansion Timeline

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    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone was born November 2, 1734 in a log cabin in Exeter Township, near Pennsylvania. He was an american Pioneer, explorer, and a woodsman who's father Squire Boone was a blacksmith.
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    Eli Whitney

    An American inventor best know for creating the Cotton Gin. The Cotton Gin was a very big help to society.
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    Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

    He was an American physcian and missionary in the Oregon country. Along with his wife he started a mission to Cayuse Southeastern Washington state in 1836.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    A land between the United States and France in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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    Lewis and Clark Expedition

    The first American expeditions to cross what is now the Western portion of the United States.
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    Oregon Trail

    The Oregon Trail was laid for traders and fur trappers. Only could be traveled by horseback or on foot. By 1836 it was the first migrant train of wagons were put together.
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    John Fremont

    John Fremont was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti slavery Republican Party of the office of President Of The United Of States.
  • War of 1812

    The war of 1812 was the biggest outset of 1812. This was a military conflict that lasted from June 12 1812 to February 1815.
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    Indian Removal/Trail of Tears

    In 1830 The Trail Of Tears, resulted from the enforcement of the Treaty of New Echota which was an agreement signed under provisions of the Indian Removal.
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    Texas Revolution

    This Texas Revolution began when colonist in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government.
  • Manifest Destiny

    During the 19th century period of the American expansion that the United states not only could but was destined to stretch from coast to coast.
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    The Mexican War

    This war was known as the Mexican War the U.S. war of invasion of Mexico was an armed conflict between the United States of America and United Mexican states.
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    The Donner Party

    This was 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. They were delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes and spent the winter of 1846- 1847
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    The California Gold Rush

    The gold rush brought in many of California's people due to gold first found by the Mexicans.
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    The Battle of Little Bighorn

    The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand.
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    The Massacre at Wounded Knee

    The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota.