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Westward Expansion
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Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights was one of the biggest events in the United States of America's history. This event made a government for the U.S.A. It gave people rights so that they wouldn't get controlled by the military. It made the U.S.A. what it is today. -
Lousiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was when the Americans bought some land from Spain. The lewis and Clark epitition was a risky expittion because they were the first people that explored the new land. After they came back tons of people moved to the west to think that they would start a new life. -
Lewis and Clark Expitition
The Lewis and Clark expadtion was a risky expadition because they were the first ones to go to the west. They had to conqor mountains and bad weather. But when they got to the went is made history because they were the first americans that had entered the west coast of America. -
Flordia becomes a U.S.A. State
Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain in 1513. But the French were also interested in the territory, and they built Fort Caroline near the mouth of the St. Johns River 1564. A year later, to maintain its control over the territory, Spain destroyed Fort Caroline, and Leon founded our country's oldest continuously settled city in St. Augustine. -
Induian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. -
Trail of Tears
In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. When the dust cleared, Mexic -
Transcontinental Railroad
On this day in 1869, the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history. No longer would western-bound travelers need to take the long and dangerous journey by wagon train, and the West would surely lose some of its wild charm with the new connection to the civilized East.
