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Louisiana Purchase
United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France therefore doubling the size of the republic. It was also known as the Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition spanned 8,000 mi (13,000 km) and three years, taking the Corps of Discovery, as the expedition party was known, down the Ohio River, up the Missouri River, across the Continental Divide, and to the Pacific Ocean. -
The War of 1812
The United States was in conflict with Great Britain and the United States lost the most out of that war. the causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman became famous as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad during the turbulent 1850s. She was born a slave on Maryland’s eastern shore, she endured the harsh existence of a field hand, including brutal beatings. In 1849 she fled slavery, leaving her husband and family behind in order to escape. -
William Austin Burt
American inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. He was the inventor, maker and patented of the first typewriter constructed in America.He is referred to as the "father of the typewriter". Burt also invented the first workable solar compass, a solar use surveying instrument, and the equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea. -
Beginning of Civil War
The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Bay. As early as 1858 the ongoing conflict between North and South over the issue of slavery had led Southern leadership to discuss a unified separation from the United States. By 1860 the majority of the slave states were publicly threatening secession if the Republicans, the antislavery party won the presidency. -
Alfred Nobel
1860, he invented dynamite – a mixture of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr – which added a new easily usable weapon to mankind’s armory. He was born in Stockholm but brought up in Russia where his father was the manufacturer of explosives and torpedoes, and this family involvement with instruments of destruction was to bring him both his fortune and the self-loathing that ultimately propelled him to found the international prizes which keep his memory alive. -
Thomas Edison
In his 84 years, Thomas Edison acquired a record number of 1,093 patents and was the driving force behind such innovations as the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb and one of the earliest motion picture cameras. He also created the world’s first industrial research laboratory. He did some of his best-known work, Edison had become one of the most famous men in the world by the time he was in his 30s. -
The Statue of Liberty
The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.The Statue of Liberty is a figure of a robed woman representing Libertas, a Roman goddess. She holds a torch above her head, and in her left arm carries a tabla ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. -
Galveston Hurricane
The Great Galveston Hurricane, known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900, was a Category 4 storm, with winds of up to 145 mph, which made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas, in the United States. It killed 6,000 to 12,000 people, making it the deadliest hurricane and natural disaster in U.S. history. -
California Gold Rush
Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area; by the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000. A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush, which peaked in 1852.
