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Daniel Boone (Kentucky)
Daniel Boone is one of the most widely known American frontiersmen.He first arrived in the future state in 1767 and spent the better part of the next 30 years exploring and settling the lands of Kentucky, including carving out the Wilderness Road and building the settlement station of Boonesboro. -
Eli Whitney invented Cotton Gin
It was an machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
The Louisiana Purchase
It was a land deal between the United States and France. It was purchase of a big region of United States which was called "Louisiane" by the French. -
Lewis and Clark exedition
Before Lewis and Clark did their expedition nobody really knew what was out west in the Louisiana Purchase. This expedition was to show what was in the purchase and if it was really a good buy. -
War of 1812
Ended in February 17, 1815. The conflict helped establish the credibility of the young United States among other nations. It fostered a strong sense of national pride among the American people, and those patriotic feelings are reflected and preserved in the song we know today as the U.S. national anthem. -
Indian Removal/Trial of Tears
White settlers wanted yo grow cotton on the Indian's land. The federal government foced them to leave their homeland and walk thousands of miles to an Indian Territory across the Mississippi river. -
Texas Revolution
It ended April 21, 1836. It was a military conflict between the government between Mexico and Texas colonists -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
They were the first whites to travel the west -
Manifest Destiny
It expressed the belief that it was white smericans providential mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the breadth of North America. This expansion would involve not merely territorial aggrandizement but the progress of liberty and individual economic opportunity as well. -
The Mexican War
war between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). -
Donner Party
Brothers soon encountered rough terrain and numerous delays, and they eventually became trapped by heavy snowfall high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Purportedly reduced to cannibalism to survive through the winter, only half of the original group reached California the following year. -
John Fremont (California)
He was given command of Department of the West by President Abraham Lincoln. Although Frémont had successes during his brief tenure as Commander of the Western Armies, he ran his department autocratically, and made hasty decisions without consulting Washington D.C. or President Lincoln. After Frémont's emancipation edict that freed slaves in his district, he was relieved of his command by President Lincoln for insubordination -
The California Gold Rush
It's where Gold was found in California. -
The Oregon Trail
A 2,000 mile long route across the old west.
