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The United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million from France. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States doubled its size, expanding the nation westward. -
A federally funded venture to explore the North American West. The expedition's principal objective was to survey the Missouri and Columbia rivers, locating routes that would connect the continental interior to the Pacific Ocean. -
A conflict between Britain and America over oceanic disputes. This was mainly Britain stopping America from trading with the French. The conflict ended with the Treaty of Ghent. -
This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory. -
It was done underneath the eyes of the public and the terms that the participants used were all railway terms. Through this system, over 40 to 100, 000 slaves were able to escape to freedom. -
A group of Texan volunteers led by George Collins worth and Benjamin Milan overwhelmed the Mexican garrison at the Alamo and captured the fort, seizing control of San Antonio. -
This ware was from an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory. -
This was a rapid influx of fortune seekers in California that began after gold was found at Sutter's Mill. -
This war was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861. The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery. -
Lincoln's three-minute-long Gettysburg Address defined the meaning of the Civil War. Drawing upon the biblical concepts of suffering, consecration, and resurrection, he described the war as a momentous chapter in the global struggle for self- government, liberty, and equality.