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Daniel Boon
led an expedition and discovered a trail to the far west though the Cumberland Gap. -
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the Cotton Gin. -
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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman date
Was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon country. -
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. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. -
Oregon Trail
A 2,200 mile long trail that connected Missouri river to valleys in Oregon. Was only accessible by horseback or foot. -
War of 1812
Fought between the United States, and Great Britain over the British violations of the U.S maritime rights. -
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John Fremont
Was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who had become the first candidate of the anti - slavery republican party for the office of president of the United States. -
Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
An act signed into law authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Texas Revolution
Began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
Manifest Destiny
Was a widely held belief in the U.S that it’s settlers were destined to expand across North America -
The Donner Party
Led by two wealthy brothers, Jacob and George Donner, the emigrants initially followed the regular California Trail westward to Fort Bridger, Wyoming. -
The Mexican War
Was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848. -
The California Gold Rush date
The first to hear confirmed information of the gold rush were the people in Oregon, the Sandwich Islands, and Latin America, and they were the first to start flocking to the state in late 1848. -
The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)
Known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand. -
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.