Westward Expansion

  • Bill of Right

    Bill of Right
    The bill of rights is a collective name for the first ten amendments of the U.S. constitution.
  • Louisana Purchase

    Louisana Purchase
    The Louisana Purchase was territory owned by the french and was sold to the U.S. Each acre of land was 13 cents.
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act
    This was an act to remove the Indians from their homes. The american's took over their land and homes.
  • Lewis and Clark Expedition

    Lewis and Clark Expedition
    Thomas Jefferson made Lewis and Clark to find a water route across North America and explore the uncharted West, he expected they'd encounter woolly mammoths, erupting volcanoes, and a mountain of pure salt. What they found was no less surprising.
  • Florida becomes a U.S. state

    Florida becomes a U.S. state
    Adam Onis from Europe first owned this land he then sold it to the American's.
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears
    The Chereokee nation was forced to to give up it's land east of the Mississippi river and to travel to Oklahoma. Many died during the journey. This is why they call it " trail of tears".
  • Mexican- American War

    Mexican- American War
    The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexican War or the Invasion of Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States. t followed in the U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory,
  • Transcontinential Railroad

    Transcontinential Railroad
    The Transcintinential railroad line constructed in the United States between 1863 and 1869 west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa. This railroad will help with transportation.