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The settlement of Jamestown was the first british settlement in North America. The town, Jamestown was named after the British King at this time, James I. -
The Independance day is a federal holiday in USA to commemorating the day of the declaration of Independance of the United States on July 4th, 1776. -
The Louisiana Purchase was the first land purchase of the United States and took place in 1803. It was bought from France for $15M.
Since it doubled the size of the U.S. -
After the Louisiana Purchase, President Jefferson asked Lewis and Clark to map the territory and to found a water route to the Pacific Ocean. Their exploration lasted two years (1804-1806). -
The end of their expedition -
The Indian removal act was signed by President Andrew Jackson on May 28th, 1830. This law was made to permits the East of the Mississipi to be settled by the white farmers. By it, this act forced the Natives American to be relocated. -
The Trail of Tears is the name given to the forced delocation of the Natives Americans tribes (Cherokee) from Mississipi to Oklahoma. Their deportation killed 4,000 of them from starvation and exhaustion.
This happened because of the Indian Removal Act signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830 to took away the lands of the east of the Mississipi from the Natives and gave it to the white farmers. -
The Oregon Trail is a gigantic and historic wagon route and an emigrant trail which spread between Missouri and Oregon which was used by around 400 000 settlers. The route is 2,200 miles long. This event lasted for 40 years. -
The Donner Party was a group of American settlers/pioneers who migrated to California by wagon trains from the Midwest. They spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating the bodies of those who had succumbed to starvation, sickness, and extreme cold. Out of 89 emigrants only half/45 survived and reached California. (it lasted 1 year) -
The end of the Donner Party -
The California Gold Rush ran from 1848 to 1855 in Sierra Nevada and North Carolina. On January 24, 1848, James Marshal was the first person to find gold in California. Soon after the newspaper reports, hundreds of immigrants from around the world flocked to California in search of gold. These people were known as the ‘forty niners’ as most of them arrived in 1849. The Gold Rush was the largest mass migration in US history, about 90,000 arrived in California in 1849. -
The end of the terrible Trail of Tears that killed a lot of Natives from starvation and exhaustion. -
The end of the gold rush -
The Civil war began in 1861 and opposed the United States of America led by President Abraham Lincoln, and the the Confederate States of America directed by Jefferson Davis. The Confederate States of America was made up of eleven southern states that had seceded from the United States. This war was a was a fought over the moral issue of slavery, and it lasted for 4 years. -
Homestead is an area of public land granted by the U.S. government to its citizens to settle and operate a farm. On the 20th of May, 1862 the US President Abraham Lincoln was signed the Homestead Act. This law permits to accelerate the settlement and the development fo the West America by making the Natives lost their motherlands. -
In July 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Railroad act. This act permits the creation by the central pacific and the union pacific of the Transcontinental railroad that connected the East and the West of the USA.
This construction was made during the Civil war to unify the nation during this dark time. -
The End of the Civil war was 4 years after the beginning, and it ended with the defeat of the Confederacy States with a total cost of 620,000 Union and Confederate deads. -
This painting was done by Albert Bierstadt in 1869. It represent settlers on their way to colonize the West (and Oregeon) which seem to be peaceful. On the scene we can see a big sunset representing a new life. The nature all around the trail looks hostile and savage with the dark trees and the skull bones at the bottom. -
The end of the building of The Transcontinental. -
The end of the Oregon Trail -
Stagecoach is a well-known western movie directed by John Ford. the film has been deemed as culturally and historically significant. The movie presents the opposition of the Natives American who are shown as evil, savages and dangerous, and the Settlers (who are armed) who are shown as good. This movie is a propaganda film made to convince people that the settlers were only protected themselves from the Natives.