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Daniel Boone
an american pioneer, he is known for exploration and settlement of Kentucky. -
eli whitney
he is an inventor best known for the invention of the cotton gin which changed the economy. -
Louisiana Purchase
was a land deal 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. gives us the state of louisiana. -
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. It began near St. Louis, made its way westward, and passed through the continental divide to reach the Pacific coast. -
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War of 1812
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Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
the indian removal act was a law that 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. and the trail of tears a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Native Territory. -
Oregon Trail
a historic 2,000-mile (3,200-km) trail used by American pioneers living in the Great Plains in the 19th century. The emigrants traveled by wagon stretches to california