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Daniel Boone (Kentucky)
Boone went on a Military expedition that was part of the French adn Indian War. Boone was able to use his hunting skills and love of the wilderness. Over the years he served as a wagoner with Gen. Edward Braddock’s ill-fated expedition to Fort Duquesne in 1755. -
Eli Whitney invented cotton gin
It was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls. This cotton gin made it possible for farmers to plant more cotton. By 1860 the cotton gin became a cash crop. Cotton production increased. Also the number of slaves increased in the United States. So slavery grew more due to the fact that the cotton gin was easy to use and they needed someone to work it. -
Louisiana Purchase
The purchase had 828,000 sqaure miles of territory. The United States purchased this in France for $15 million. The price was 4 cents per acre. This made the United States double in size, it made the nation expand. This treaty was signed in Paris. They were told to pay France up to $10 million for the port of New Orleans and Florida. They were offered the entire territory of Louisiana with an area larger than Great Britain, France, Germany, Italym Spain and Portugal. They agreed to $15 million. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
President Thomas Jefferson sent a message to the Congress asking for the apporval and funding of the expedition to explore the Western part of the continent. Lewis and Clark led the expedition. They found out that the United States bought more land, so they were able to explor that land to. They establish Camp Wood, the winter camp for Corps of Discovery. -
War of 1812
Many suffered losses and the White House was burned down in 1814. The cause of the war was a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US part of the Napoleonic Wars. The treaty of Ghent was signed on December 24, 1814. It established that nobody had lost any of their territory in the war. The war had officially ended on Febuaray 17, 1815. -
Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
In the 1830s there were nearly 125,000 Native Americans that lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. But the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homes and walk thousands of miles. -
Texas Revolution
Was the war of independance. It was led by General Santa Anna and Texas colonists. resulted in the establishment of the Republic of Texas after the final battle at Vince's Bridge on April 21, 1836. The Battle of the Alamo was the most famous battles during the Texas Revolution but the Goliad Massacre was also a well known event involving the execution of over 350 Texans who was forced to surrender to the Mexican army of Santa Anna. -
The Oregon Trail
From about 1811 to 1840 the Oregon Trail was laid down by traders and fur trappers. The only way of travel was by horseback or on foot. But by the year 1836, the first of the migrant train of wagons was conducted. It started in Independence, Missouri and traveled a cleared trail that reached to Fort Hall, Idaho. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny originated in the 1840s. The expression of the belief was that it was Anglo-Saxon Americans’ providential mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the breadth of North America. This expansion would involve not merely territorial aggrandizement but the progress of liberty and individual economic opportunity to. -
The Donner Party
1846 a group of emigrants left Springfield, Illinois, and headed west. Led by brothers Jacob and George Donner, the group attempted to take a new and shorter route to California. They soon entered a rough terrain and numerous delays, and they became trapped by heavy snowfall high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Only half of the party arrived in California that following year. -
John Fremont (in California)
A Bear Flag Revolt, a small group of American settlers rebelled against the Mexican Government and proclaimed California an independent republic. This didn't last long becuase after the Flag was raised, the U.S. military occupied California. This went on to jion the uinion in 1850. The Bear Flag became the offical state flag in the year of 1911. -
The Mexican War
It was the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It showed a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
The Whitman Misson was the site of the 1847 massacre which played a key role in the Ameria's Westard expansion. The misson was to make Christians out of the American Indians. Instead it became a clash of bloody cultures between the white settlers and the American Indian Tribes. -
The California Gold Rush
The discovery of gold pieces in the Sacramento Valley in 1848 sparked what is known as the Gld Rush. News spread of the discovery, thousands of gold miners traveled to San Francisco and the surrounding area. By the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000. A total of $2 billion worth of metal wascollected from the area during the Gold Rush, which hit its peak in 1852. -
The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)
He served with distinction in the American Civil War, he's known for leading more than 200 of his men to their deaths in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. The battle, also known as “Custer’s Last Stand,” it was part of the Black Hills War against a group of Plains Indians, including the Cheyenne and Dakota Sioux. It is considered one of the most controversial battles in U.S. history. -
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
Was located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. It was the site of two conflicts between the North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. An 1890 massacre left some 150 of the Native Americansdead, in what was the final clash between the federal troops and the Sioux. In 1973 members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee for 71 days to protest conditions on the reservation.
