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Daniel Boone
An American frontiersman from Pennsylvania. He explored and settled Kentucky. Through 1775-1778, Boone was a captain in a militia and defended settlements. He served in the Virginia assembly, but lost his land there due to bad business. He settled in Femme Osage valley in 1799. He died in 1820. -
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Eli Whitney
An American inventor best know for creating the Cotton Gin. The Cotton Gin was a very big help to society. -
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Marcus & Narcissa Whitman
He was an American physcian and missionary in the Oregon country. Along with his wife he started a mission to Cayuse Southeastern Washington state in 1836. -
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Lewis & Clark Expedition
The first American expeditions to cross what is now the Western portion of the United States. -
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Oregon Trial
The Oregon Trail was laid for traders and fur trappers. Only could be traveled by horseback or on foot. By 1836 it was the first migrant train of wagons were put together. -
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John Fremont
John Fremont was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti slavery Republican Party of the office of President Of The United Of States. -
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Indian Removal/Trial of Tears
In 1830 The Trail Of Tears, resulted from the enforcement of the Treaty of New Echota which was an agreement signed under provisions of the Indian Removal. -
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Texas Revolution
This Texas Revolution began when colonist in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
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The Mexican War
This war was known as the Mexican War the U.S. war of invasion of Mexico was an armed conflict between the United States of America and United Mexican states. -
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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 in May 1846. They were delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes and spent the winter of 1846- 1847 -
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The California Gold Rush
The gold rush brought in many of California's people due to gold first found by the Mexicans. -
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The Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and commonly referred to as 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.