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Led by Lewis and Clark, to explore the territory acquired in the Louisiana purchase
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Having started upstream on the Missouri river from there s.t Louis-area camp
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the Cherokee Indians are forced to leave there lands east of the Mississippi river and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
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when gold was found by james .W. Marshall at Sutters mill in Coloma, calofornia
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the Kansas Nebraska act was passed by the us congress
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Signed into law by president Abraham Lincoln, the homestead act encouraged western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land
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were members of the 10th calvery
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the presidents of the union pacific and central pacific railroads meet in promonty
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chief joseph says "hear me, my chiefs: my heart is sick and sad.From where the sun now stands, I will no more forever
