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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman. -
Eli Whitney invented cotton gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and revelutionized the south of the United states -
Louisiana Purchace
Land deal between United States and France, in which the United States bought what is now know as Louisiana -
Lewis and Clarke expedition
Expedition of americans across the western part of United states. -
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The Oregon Trail
the Oregon Trail was laid down by traders and fur trappers. It could only be traveled by horseback or on foot. -
War of 1812
A war that lasted 2 and a half years between United States and other countries -
Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution began with the Battle of Gonzales in October 1835 and ended with the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836; -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
he started a mission to the Cayuse in what is now southeastern Washington state in 1836 -
Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
Manifest Destiny
article on the annexation of Texas published in the July-August 1845 edition of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, which he edited. -
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. -
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The Mexican War
marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. -
John Fremont
was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States -
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The California Gold Rush
period in American History which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma,California. -
The Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River inMontana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. -
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.