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Lousiana Purchase
The French needed to raise more money, Presidnet Jefferson made a deal and bought Louisiana from them. -
Lewis and Clark start expedition
Lewis and Clark start their expedition of seeing what is west of the Appalachian Mountains -
Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean
Explorers Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific after exploring westward of the 13 colonies -
War of 1812
The United States and Great Britain clash in the War of 1812. -
Spanish Cession
Florida was handed over to the US after spain did not want to go to war. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise brings Missouri and Maine into the union and slavery to the American West. -
Mexicans rebel
Mexicans rebel against Spanish rule, winning independence. -
Indian Removal Act
Congress passes a law to to move Native Americans to Oklahoma so the US citizens can settle there -
Trail of Tears
The Cherokee Nation is forced to march to Oklahoma. Many thousands die along the way. -
Battle of the Alamo
Mexican troops attack the Alamo Mission killing all but two Texans. This starts the Texas Revolution -
Texas Rebellion
For many years there had been much struggle between Mexicans and Americans in the Texas region. They got into a big battle with the American army defeating a large part of the Mexican army. -
Oregon Trail
People began to travel and settle west on wagon trains on the Oregon Trail. -
Texas becomes a US state
Texas officially becomes a US state, eventually leading to the Mexican-American war. -
California Gold Rush
A gold fever hit when a man called John Sutter accidentally discovered nuggets of gold. -
Mexican-American WAr
A war fought over the rights to Texas -
California enters the Union
With miners flooding the hillsides and devastating the land, California's Indians find themselves deprived of their traditional food sources and forced by hunger to raid the mining towns and other white settlements. Miners retaliate by hunting Indians down and brutally abusing them. The California legislature responds to the situation with an Indenture Act which establishes a form of legal slavery for the native peoples of the state by allowing whites to declare them vagrant -
Gadsden Purchase
Next area of land to be bought by the US was Arizona and a part of New Mexico. -
Homestead Act
The U.S. government offers up free land to farmers who agree to live on the land for five years and make improvements to the land
