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Daniel Boone (Kentuckey)
Daniel Boone is the most widely known of American frontiersmen. He served as the model for James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking, and his adventures inspired incidents in hundreds of works of fiction. Even Lord Byron mentioned him in Don Juan. Without Boone the history of Kentucky would have been much different. -
Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin
called the cotton gin (“gin” was derived from “engine”), worked something like a strainer or sieve: Cotton was run through a wooden drum embedded with a series of hooks that caught the fibers and dragged them through a mesh. The mesh was too fine to let the seeds through but the hooks pulled the cotton fibers through with ease. Smaller gins could be cranked by hand; larger ones could be powered by a horse and, later, by a steam engine. -
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Western Timeline
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The Louidiana Purchase
In mid-April 1803, shortly before Monroe’s arrival, the French asked a surprised Livingston if the United States was interested in purchasing all of Louisiana Territory. It is believed that the failure of France to put down a slave revolution in Haiti, the impending war with Great Britain and probable British naval blockade of France, and financial difficulties may all have prompted Napoleon to offer Louisiana for sale to the United States. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis, Clark, and the rest of their expedition began their journey near St. Louis, Missouri, in May 1804. This group – often called the Corps of Discovery by historians – faced nearly every obstacle and hardship imaginable on their trip. They braved dangerous waters and harsh weather and endured hunger, illness, injury, and fatigue. Along the way, Lewis kept a detailed journal and collected samples of plants and animals he encountered. Lewis and his expedition received assistance in their missio -
War of 1812
In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory. -
Indian Removel/Trial of Tears
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Texas Revolution
Texas was trying to break free from Mexico. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
They were the first Anglo Americans to settle west of the Rockies. -
Manifest Destiny
The idea that America can can spread out across the land. -
The Oregon Trail
People traveled along the trail in covered wagons to Get to Oregon. -
John Fremont (in California)
He is trying to get people to believe that California should be part of the United States. -
The Donner Party
A group of nearly 90 emigrants left Springfield, Illinios and headed west to California resorted to Cannibalism. -
The Mexican War
Marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. -
The California Gold Rush
Lots of went to California to look for gold.