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Westward Expansion
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Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson bought 900,000 square miles. Lewis and Clark were the ones to explore it. They also had someone help them go across the 900,000 square miles. He paid 15 million dollars (thats an average of 3 cents per achre). -
Erie Canal being finished
The Erie Canal is a water tunnel in New York that runs about 363 miles. It helped make travel easier for people to go places. -
Trail Of Tears
Indians were taken out of their homes and sent walking over 800 miles. If they died they just got a blanket thrown over them and didnt have a very good burial. It happened in the state of Oklahoma. -
Indian RemovalAct
The Removal Act was supported in the South, where states were excited to access the lands owned by the Indains who lived there. In particular, Georgia, the largest state at that time, was involved in the removal of the Cherokee nation. President Jackson hoped removal would resolve the Georgia crisis. -
Mormon Trail
The trail was used for more than 20 years, until the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. Among the emigrants were the Mormon handcart pioneers of 1856–1860. Two of the handcart companies, led by James G. Willie and Edward Martin, met disaster on the trail when they departed late and were caught by heavy snowstorms in Wyoming. -
The Alamo
The Alamo was a time of war between America and Mexico for the right to have Texas. The Alamo lasted at least a year. The mexicans had won the Alamo by suprise attack. One night the Mexicans came up and ambushed us with 1,500 men. -
Texas Gaining Independence
America had won the war against Mexico and got Texas. Texas was adopting a declartion of indenpence to become part of the united states. -
Oregon Trail being traveled
People moved west called the Oregan trail. They had to go through alot of conditions from indians to sicknesses. Alot of people died on the Oregan trail. Some went insane and some survied through the hardships of the Oregan trail. Alot of people turned around because the conuditions were so bad. But alot of people did make the long hard winter and baring heat. -
Texas annexed by the United States
On February 28, 1845, the U.S. Congress passed a bill that would allow United States to take the Republic of Texas. On March 1 U.S. President John Tyler signed the bill. The legislation set the date for annexation for December 29 of the same year. On October 13 of the same year, a majority of voters in the Republic allowed a constitution that specifically let slavery happen and the slave trade. This constitution was later accepted by the U.S. Congress, making Texas part of united states. -
U.S. Mexican War
was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the proecsse of the 1845 U.S. adding of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory even with the 1836 Texas Revolution.American forces quickly went with New Mexico and California, then invaded parts of Northeastern Mexico and Northwest Mexico and took control of several garrisons on the Pacific coast further south in Baja California. After Mexico would still not agree the US started another war and won. -
California Becoming a state
As the gold rush was becoming a known thing the united states started to notice the population was growing. The mexicans did not provide the government needed for the state so U.S. took it over and made it into a state because of all of the people who were coming for the gold. -
Mexican Secession
Area of the present-day United States that Mexico agreed to give up as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War. This territory included all of the present-day states of California, Nevada, and Utah and also parts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was a migration of people riding to northern California following the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848. It was estimated that as many as 100,000 people arrived in California during 1849, at the height of the California Gold Rush. -
Gadsden Purchase
An area in southern New Mexico and Arizona south of the Gila River. It was bought by the United States from Mexico in 1853 to ensure the rights for a practicable southern railroad route to the Pacific Coast.
