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The United States bought the Louisiana Purchase, a huge section or the midwest, from France for about $0.02 an acre.
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Meriwether Louis and William Clark explore the Louisiana Purchase for the government.
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The Gold Rush starts with gold found in Sutter's Mill, CA. Gold miners, like the one at the left, swarm in with regular people to find gold.
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The North and South go to war.
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The Homestead Act was signed into law.
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As of this day, the government loaned land to 2 railroad companies to build a transcontinental railroad. Source: ttp://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=32
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The Transcontinental Railroad is built by the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. The ground in Sacramento was broken by the then governor to start the progress. The ground-breaking in Omaha occured on Dec. 2, 1863. The construction for the Central Pacific, in California, started on Oct.26, 1863. In Sacramento, they started building on Oct.26, 1863. Six years later, at the end, the Golden Spike was hammered in as the very last spike in the Transcontinental Railroad. Source:http://www.tcrr.com
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The golden spike was nailed in at the very end of the transcontinental railroad as the last spike.
