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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was an American poineer , explorer, woodsman, frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one the first folk heroes of the united states. -
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Eli Whitney
was an american inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. this one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum south. -
Louisiana Purchase
was considered the greatest real estate deal in history. The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France at a price of $15 million, or approximately four cents an acre. The ratification of the Louisiana Purchase treaty by the Senate on October 20, 1803, doubled the size of the United States and opened up the continent to its westward expansion. -
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Lewis and clark expedition
This group – often called the Corps of Discovery by historians – faced nearly every obstacle and hardship imaginable on their trip. They braved dangerous waters and harsh weather and endured hunger, illness, injury, and fatigue. Along the way, Lewis kept a detailed journal and collected samples of plants and animals he encountered. -
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War of 1812
conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent. -
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John Fremont
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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Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution (Spanish: Revolución de Tejas; October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) began when colonists, primarily from the United States, in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
Donner Party
In the spring of 1846, a group of nearly 90 emigrants left Springfield, Illinois, and headed west. Led by brothers Jacob and George Donner, the group attempted to take a new and supposedly shorter route to California. They soon encountered rough terrain and numerous delays, and they eventually became trapped by heavy snowfall high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. -
Mexican War
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Narcissa Prentiss Whitman was an American missionary in the Oregon Country of what would become the state of WashingtonMarcus Whitman was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country. Along with his wife, Narcissa, he started a mission to the Cayuse in what is now southeastern Washington state in 1836. -
The California Gold rush
On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California. At the time, Marshall was working to build a water-powered sawmill owned by John Sutter, a German-born Swiss citizen and founder of a colony of Nueva Helvetia (New Switzerland).