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daniel boone (kentuky)
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States -
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Eli Whitney invented cotton gin
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the louisiana purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) 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 -
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lewis & clark
the object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river and such principal stream of it, as, by it's course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this -
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oregon trail
The 2,200-mile east-west trail served as a critical transportation route for emigrants traveling from Missouri to Oregon and other points west during the mid-1800s.1837. -
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The War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies -
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Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
the indians were driven out of there own territory -
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texas revolution
The Texas Revolution began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
Marcus narcissa Whitman
Marcus Whitman was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country. Along with his wife narcissa , he started a mission to the Cayuse in what is now southeastern Washington state in 1836. -
Manifest Destiny
The term manifest destiny originated in the 1840s. It expressed the belief that it was Anglo-Saxon Americans’ providential mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the breadth of North America. -
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The Mexican War
The war between U.S. and Mexico, which spanned the period from the spring of 1846 to the fall of 1847, -
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the donner party
was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. -
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was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada.
The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, -
John Fremont (in California)
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The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)
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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.
