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Daniel Boone (Kentucky)
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. -
Eli Whitney invented cotton gin
Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Marcus Whitman was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country. Along with his wife Narcissa -
The Louisiana Purchase
as a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson guided a splendid piece of foreign diplomacy through the U.S. Senate: the purchase of Louisiana territory from France -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland -
Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
Over 20,000 Cherokees were forced to march westward along the Trail of Tears. About a quarter of them died along the way. -
Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
Manifest Destiny
belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
The Mexican war
he war between U.S. and Mexico, which spanned the period from the spring of 1846 to the fall of 1847 -
The Donner party
was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train. -
The California Gold Rush
gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century -
The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)
175 soldiers attacked the southern -
John Fremont (in California)
was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party -
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota
