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Daniel Boone.
Boone was an american pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman. Boone is most famous for his exploration for Kentucky. -
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Eli Whitney
Whitney was an american inventor and best known for creating the cotton gin. -
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Marcus whitman
Marcus Whitman was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country. He had a wife named Narcissa Whitman -
Louisiana Purchase
A land deal between the United States and France. The US acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of West of the Mississippi River. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. -
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Narcissa Whitman
Narcissa Prentiss Whitman was an American missionary in the Oregon Country of what would become the state of Washington. -
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Narcissa Whitman
Narcissa Prentiss Whitman was an American missionary in the Oregon Country of what would become the state of Washington. -
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War of 1812
conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. -
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John Fremont
John Frémont was an American military officer explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the antislavery Republican party for the office of president of the US. -
Oregon Trail
2,170 mile large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri river to valleys in Oregon. -
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Texas Revolution.
a convention of American Texans meets at Washington on the Brazos and declares the independence of Texas from Mexico. The delegates chose David Burnet as provisional president and confirmed Sam Houston as the commander in chief of all Texan forces. -
Indian Removal/Trail of tears.
An agreement signed of the indian removal act. -
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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. -
The Donner Party
They took a "short cut" but it ended up putting 100 miles on the trip and they were only 30 miles from California and then and axle broke on their wage and then 5 feet of snow came and they were there for at least 5 months and was out of food to eat so they decided to eat their family. -
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The Mexican War
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The California Gold Rush
This all started in the early 1849. A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was taken from the gold rush. -
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The Battle of Little Bighorn
The battle was fought near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory. -
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
The massacre started in the 1890's and it left 15 americans dead. In 1973, the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee for 71 days to protest conditions on the reservation.