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Jim Bowie
James "Jim" Bowie was a 19th-century American pioneer, who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo -
Louisiana Purchase
A land deal between France and the US where the US aquired a large amount of land -
Clermont Steamboat
The North River Steamboat or North River is widely regarded as the world's first vessel to demonstrate the viability of using steam propulsion for commercial water transportation -
Tecumseh
a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and became an ally of Britain in the War of 1812 -
Seminole Wars
The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole—the collective name given to the amalgamation of various groups of Native Americans and African Americans who settled in Florida in the early 18th century -
Spanish Cession
the U.S. agreed to pay $5 million which the Spanish government owed to American citizens. Thus, all of Florida was added to a growing United States. -
Erie Canal Opens
It connected Lake Erie and the Hudson river and was considered a wonder of the world. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. -
Prophetstown
Wabokieshiek served as an advisor to Black Hawk and took part in the Black Hawk War. They left the land in 1832 as the Black Hawk War ended. -
Treaty of New Echota
Treaty of New Echota. It cost three men their lives and provided the legal basis for the Trail of Tears, the forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia. The Treaty of New Echota was signed on this day in 1835, ceding Cherokee land to the U.S. in exchange for compensation. -
The Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. -
Trail of Tears
As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
First Telegraph
Sent by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, the message said: "What hath God wrought?" -
Texas Statehood
Texas became a State. -
Oregon Trail
An emmigration trail from Missouri to Oregon- California. -
Oregon Treaty
The Oregon Treaty set the U.S. and British North American border at the 49th parallel with the exception of Vancouver Island, which was retained in its entirety by the British. -
Donner Party
The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train. -
Sutters Mill
People were using John Sutter's sawmill and a guy named James noticed several flakes of metal in the water and recognized them to be gold. Though he tried to keep it a secret, the word spread quickly, and triggered the California Gold Rush of 1849. -
Mexican Cession
The Land that mexico ceded with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. -
California Statehood
California, stretches from the Mexican border along the Pacific. Bridge. It became a state in 1850. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. -
Oregon Territory
The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon. -
Civil War
A war that determined the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy -
Alaska Purchase
an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million -
First Transcontinental Railroad
Made travel easier and further increased the Manifest Destiny. -
Golden Spike
It was the last spike placed in the first transcontinental railroad. -
Little Big Horn
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 -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee Massacre. Not to be confused with Wounded Knee incident. The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. -
Arizona Statehood
Arizona became part of the United States.
