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Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States
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The modern mechanical cotton gin was invented in the United States of America in 1793 by Eli Whitney
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was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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After the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was made, Jefferson initiated an exploration of the newly purchased land and the territory beyond the "great rock mountains" in the West.
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The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies.
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John Charles Frémont or Fremont was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.
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over population caused andwrew jackson to move the natives to the west side of the mississipi river
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began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government.
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The Oregon Trail migration, more correctly known as the Oregon-California Trail migration, is one of the most important events in American History.
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Marcus Whitman was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country.
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is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast.
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was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada.
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The war between U.S. and Mexico, which spanned the period from the spring of 1846 to the fall of 1847, was initiated by the United States and resulted in Mexico's defeat and the loss of approximately half of its national territory in the north.
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was a period in American History which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.
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occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Wikipedia
