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Louisiana Purchase
U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million from france -
Clermont Steamboat
Built in 1807, the North River Steamboat operated on the Hudson River (at that time often known as the North River) between New York and Albany. -
Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail was laid by fur trappers and traders from about 1811 to 1840 and was only passable on foot or by horseback. -
The 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—and the United States Army.
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Civil War
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. -
Spanish Cession
In 1819 a treaty was signed in which Spain agreed to cede, or give, Florida to the United States. In return, the U.S. agreed to pay $5 million which the Spanish government owed to American citizens. -
Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. -
Erie Canal Opens
After more than two years of digging, the 425-mile Erie Canal was opened on October 26, 1825, by Governor Clinton. -
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. -
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. It was signed on December 29, 1835. -
The Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. -
Jim Bowie
Jim Bowie was a pioneer that played an important role in the Texas Revolution. He was still fighting Mexican soldiers while he was bd ridden and dying.
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Trail of Tears
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
First Telegraph
Sent by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse on May 24, 1844, over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, the message said: "What hath God wrought?" -
Texas Statehood
Texas became a state on December 29, 1845. It was the 28th state of America. -
Oregon Territory
After the signing of the Oregon Treaty, Britan recieved the area in Canada and the US kept the rest. -
Donner Party
The Donner Party set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846. Delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the pioneers resorted to cannibalism to survive. -
Mexican Cession
The Mexican Cession of 1848 is a historical name in the United States for the region of the modern day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. -
Sutter's Mill
California Gold Rush Began in 1848 and ended 1849. -
California Statehood
Mexico had reluctantly ceded California and much of its northern territory to the United States in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase (known in Mexico as Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla, "Sale of La Mesilla"[1]) is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853 by James Gadsden who was the American ambassador to Mexico at that time. -
Alaska Purchased
On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. -
First Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad was a contiguous railroad line made west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa.It was opened on May 10th, 1869 -
Golden Spike
The ceremony for the Transcontiental Railroad was held on May 10th, 1869. -
Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
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. Wikipedia -
Arizona Statehood
Arizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912.
