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Daniel Boone
An American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States -
Eli Whitney
American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. -
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Marcus and Narcissa
American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country. Along with his wife, he started a mission to the Cayuse -
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The Louisiana Purchase
The United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic. -
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Lewis and Clark expedition
Having started upstream on the Missouri River from their St. Louis-area camp—where they had been preparing for the expedition. -
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Oregon Trail
It's a 2,170-mile historic east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. -
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War of 1812
A military conflict,fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies. -
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John Fremont
Is an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. -
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Texas Revolution
Began when colonists (primarily from the United States) in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
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Trail of Tears
Was 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. -
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The Mexican War
The U.S.–Mexican War or the Invasion of Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States -
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Donner Party
Separates from the other wagon trains and takes the left-hand road to Fort Bridger -
California Gold Rush
When gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. -
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Battle of Little Bighorn
Known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass -
Wounded Knee Massacre
The troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota