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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was an American explorer that was born on November 2, 1734, near Reading, Pennsylvania. He left in 1755 for a military expedition that was part of the French and Indian War. He was a wagoner for Brigadier General Edward Braddock during his army's defeat at Turtle Creek. He died on September 26, 1820 in Femme Osage Creek, Missouri. -
Eli Whitney invented cotton gin
He pattened the cotton gin on March 14, 1794. Farmers were able to plant more cotton. Cotton became the number one crop in the south. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the United States got 827,00 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
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War of 1812
The war was started because of trade restrictions brought about by the British war with France, the impressement of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, The war was fought at sea, land, and the American South and Gulf Coast. On December 24, 1814 the Treaty of Ghent was signed. -
Manifest Destiny
Americans expanded to to the west after the Louisana Purchase. -
Indian Removal/ Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears is the name given to the forced relocation of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. -
Texas Revolution
The Teas Revolution was also called the Texas War of Independence. It was the military conflict between the government of Mexico and Texas Colonists. It started in October 1835 and ended on April 21, 1836. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Marcus and Narcissa were some of the first settlers in the West. Narcissa became the first white women to cross the Rocky Mountains. Marcus helped lead the first "Great Migration" to the West, guiding a wagon train of one thousand pioneers up the Oregon Trail. -
The Donner Party
Was a group of American pioneers who that left Springfield, Illinois on the the 2500 mile journey to California. -
John Fremont
He was born on January 21, 1813 in Savannah, Georgia. He was the 3rd Military Governor of Calfifornia. He became one of the first two senators from California. -
The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail is a 2,200-mile historic east-west large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. -
The California Gold Rush
It began when James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River while constructing a sawmill for John Sutter. The discovery brought thousands of immigrants to California from elsewhere in the United States and from other countries. It ended in 1858.
