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Daniel Boone
French and Indian War begins; Boone with Braddock's army during the disastrous defeat near Pittsburgh. A member of Major Edward Dobb's North Carolina militia, serves as wagoneer in General Edward Braddock's ill-fated march o Fort Duquesne. -
Louisianna 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 dollars. -
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Jefferson chose his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis, an intelligent and literate man who also possessed skills as a frontiersman. Lewis in turn solicited the help of William Clark, whose abilities as draftsman and frontiersman were even stronger -
War of 1812
In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory. -
Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin
n 1794, U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
Indian Removal/ Trail of Tears
The Indian Removal policy of President Andrew Jackson was prompted by the desire of white settlers in the South to expand into lands belonging to five Indian tribes.This forced relocation became known as the “Trail of Tears” because of the great hardship faced by Cherokees. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Their mission was to teach the Indians the gospel in the Presbyterian fashion and teach them the “arts of civilization.” Marcus Whitman was the first medical missionary on the Pacific Coast, a graduate Fairfield Medical College at Fairfield, N.Y. Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and Rev. Spalding’s wife, Eliza Hart Spalding, made the journey with their husbands across the continent in 1837. -
Texas Revolution
he Texas Revolution began with the battle of Gonzales in October 1835 and ended with the battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836; but there were earlier clashes between official forces and groups of colonists, so that it is impossible to set dogmatic limits in speaking of military episodes alone, to say nothing of the development of social and political differences that were a part of the revolution -
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 -
Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Donner Party
Western migration through uncharted regions strands a wagon train in the Sierra Mountains leaving little choice for survival. -
The Mexican War
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil
