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Daniel Boone was an American Pioneer. He died September 26, 1820.
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Eli Whitney was born 1765 and died in 1825. Eli patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
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Was a land deal between the United States and France.
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It was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States.
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The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years, between the United States of America and the United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland.
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John Fremont was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anit-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. John Fremont died July 13, 1890.
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The Indian Removal policy of President Andrew Jackson was promted by the desire of white settlers in the South to expand into lands belonging to five Indian tribes.
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The Oregon Trail is a 2,200 mile historic east-west large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
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Marcus Whitman was born in Rushville, New York on Sep. 4, 1802. Nacissa Prentiss was born in Prattsburg, New York on March 14, 1808. She married Marcus in 1834.
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Texas Revolution also known as the Texas War of Independence, was the military conflict between the government of Mexico and Texas colonists, most of whom were land oweners from the United States.
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Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expanison that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast.
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The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train.
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When gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter''s Mill in Coloma, California.
