Westward Expansion

  • The Louisiana Purcahase

    The Louisiana Purcahase
    The U.S paid over 15 million dolllars to France for The Louisiana Purchase. The Present Day states Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
  • Trail of tears

    Trail of tears
    The Trail of Tears was the path the Indians took when they got kicked out of their land and were forced to head West, They called it the Trail of tears because they all cried and people said they could hear their cries.
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act
    The Inidan Removal Act was when the Natiave Americans were kicked out of their land by the Americnans because the Americans wanted there land.
  • Almo

    Almo
    The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. it lasted 13-days, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar. They wanted Texas
  • Texas Annex by the United States

    Texas Annex by the United States
    In 1845, the United States of America annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the 28th state.
    Since declaring their independence from the Republic of Mexico in 1836, the vast majority of Texas citizens favored the annexation of the Lone Star Republic by the United States.
  • Mexican Cession

    Mexican Cession
    The Mexican Cession of 1848 is a historical name in the United States for the region of the present day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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    Orgeon Trail

    The Orgeon Trail was the trail that Americans took when they left there land heading for other home land in a diffrent locataion, looking for more farming land, more area to claim.
  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase
    It was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden. the American ambassador to Mexico, on December 30, 1853. It was then ratified, with changes, by the US Senate on April 25, 1854, and signed by President Franklin Pierce,
  • California Gold Rush

    The first Gold was discovered in Sutters Mill, San Fransico. A way of mining for Gold was panning. Panning is when you fill a pan with gravel and sand and you put the pan under water and gently swirl ot around so all the little rocks come out and the heavier items stay in the pan.
  • The Mormon Trail

    The Mormon Trail
    The Path The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled heading to Salt Lake City, Utah because they were picked on by other people because their belief and religion.