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Daniel Boone
led an expedition that discovered a trail that went to far west though the Cumberland Gap area he called Boonesborough in Kentucky is where he settled -
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Eli Whitney
He invented the cotton gin for the South and turned cotton into a profitable export -
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Marcus/ narcissa Whitman
both American physician and missionary they started a mission to the Cayuse in what is now southeastern Washington state. They led the first large party of wagon trains along the Oregon Trail to the West
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Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase 1803 land deal between the United States and France -
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark traveled through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest later served as governor of Upper Louisiana Territory. -
Oregon trail
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war of 1812
Conflict fought between the U.S. and Great Britain
over British violations of U.S. maritime rights -
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John Fremont
American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party. -
Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
This was the enforcement of the Treaty of New Echota this is an agreement signed under the provisions of the Indian Removal Act -
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Texas Revolution
colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly power of Mexican government -
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The Mexican war
Texas gained its independence from Mexico but U.S. declined to be apart of the union because they did not want to part of the new slave state. -
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 -
The California Gold Rush
Gold was found by James Marshall at a Mill in Coloma, California the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the U.S. -
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The Battle of Little Bighorn
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The Massacre at Wounded Knee
A battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians this resulted in the deaths of perhaps 300 Sioux men, women, and children. -
manifest destiny
an expansion that the United States was destined to do to stretch from coast to coast to helped fuel the western settlement