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Napoleon sold Louisiana in 1803. He sold it to the american because he needed money to fund wars in France. Thanks to this, US's size doubled. -
President Jefferson commissioned Lewis and Clark to find the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and Clark and their crew left St Louis by water route on the 14th of May 1804. -
On the 7th of November Lewis wrote in his journal "Great joy in camp we are in View of the Ocian" and on the 20th of November their reached the Pacific Ocean. -
They came back on 23th September 1806, they mapped the West side of US. -
President Andrew Jackson wanted the land to be settled by the white farmers. In may 1830 he signed the Indian Removal Act. Which caused the death of 4000 Indians. -
The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who migrated from the Missouri to California by wagon. They were missioned to find a new and faster way to reach the Pacific Ocean. -
On November 1846, they got stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Half of them died and the other half had to eat the dead bodies to survive. -
A rescue party arrived on January 31 to save the rest of the group, only 45 on 89 reached California. -
On 24th January the first person to find a nugget of gold in California is James Marshall. -
Soon after the newspaper reports, hundreds of immigrants from around the world migrated to California in search of gold. These people were known as the forty-niners’ as most of them arrived in 1849. It’s estimated that around 90,000 people arrived there, which is the largest mass-migration in US history; It had such an impact that settlements and roads had to be built and it resulted in California becoming its own State. -
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead act on 20th May 1862, which consist of the goverment giving acres of fields to American farmers, the only deal for them was to stay on this land for 5 years so they would be the owners.
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President Lincoln signed the the Railroad Act in 1853. It permited to connect the East to the West. Two companies were employed the Central Pacific, which began the construction in the East, and the Union Pacific, which began the construction in the West. -
The two companies unified on 10th May 1869.
