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The 1st settlement was in Jamestown, Virginia. The original settlements were on te east coast where there were the 13 original colonies. At the time, the rest of the territory was unknown and unchartered to the settlers. -
The American Revolutionary War happened to 1775 from 1783 because the 13 American colonies refused to be governed from overseas by Great Britain.
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The Treaty of paris was signed on September 9, 1783 by Great Britain and the United States of America, which had officially ended the American Revolutionary War. The Treaty set the boundaries between British Empire in North America and the USA. -
Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd American President who took office in March 1801. -
In the early 19th century, the United States was a small state on the east coast. There was a Spanish territory, the Louisiana Purchase which was a former French territory. Napoleon sold it to the Americans. It was purchased from France on April 30, 1803 for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase had more than doubled the size of the United States. -
President Jefferson commissioned Lewis and Clark to map the territory and find a water route to the Pacific Ocean right after the Louisiana Purchase. Their expedition lasted 2 years, and allowed commerce with the east and provide settlers with maps and valuable information to continue to expand the territory. -
In the Indian Removal Act, all the vast Native's lands east of the Mississippi river were to be exchanged for land to the west, called the "Indian colonisation zone"; -
The Oregon Trail is a 2,200 mile historic wagon route and emigrant trail stretching between Missouri and Oregon which was used by about 400,000 settlers.
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The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who migrated from the Midwest to California by wagon trains. They ended up trapped by heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range, and some of them resorted to cannibalism for survival.
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The California Gold Rush ran from 1848 to 1855 in Sierra Nevada and North Carolina. The first person to find golf in California was James Marshall on January 24, 1848, and over 300,000 people rushed to the area to pan for gold after this event reported on newspapers. -
The Wild West characterises the settlement of the Western United States in the second half of the 19th century and was the last area to be colonised.
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In 1862, the Homestead Act granted voluntary pioneers 160 acres of land for free if they lived on it for 5 years. It was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. -
Abraham Lincoln signed the Railroad Act in July, 1863 to build the Transcontinental Railroad which connected the east with the West of the United States. Two companies were tasked with the project, and his aim was to unify the nation.