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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was when France sold 828,000 square miles to the U.S. -
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The Oregon Trail Begins To Be Travled
The Oregon Trail Is A Trail That Peopple Who Were Travling To The United States Took. It Was Important, Because It Brought More People To The United States. -
Erie Canal Was Finished
The Erie Canal Was The First Major Transportation System. It Was Important, Because It Helped People To Gert From Place To Place And Helped With Transportation Of Goods. -
The Indian Removal Act
It Was A Law That Was Passed By Andrew Jackson, That Strongly Encouraged Indian Farmers To Trade Their Land, To Free Up Land In The South Eastern Settlement. It Wasn't Really That Important... -
The Trail Of Tears
The Trial Of Tears, Is What The Indians Called The Journey That They Were Forced To Take When The Indian Removal By Andrew Jackson Was Going On. They Called It This Because Of The Devestatinfg Effects It Had On Most People. It Was Not Very Important.. It Was Actually Very Sad. -
The Alamo
The Alamo Was A Battle Between Mexico And Texas. Texas Was Fighting For Independence, And Mexico Was Only Trying To Keep It From Them. This Was An Important Event, Because It Was The Beginning Of Somthing Bigger Than Just One War. It Was The Beginning Of Independence. -
Texas Gaining Independence
Texas Finally Gained Independence. They Did This By Capturing The Troops Of Mexico That Were Fighting Agenst Them. They Finally One After A Long, Hard, And Loosing Battle Of The Alamo. This Was Important, Because Texas Finally Were Treated Equally, And Got Equal Freedom And Independance. -
Texas Annaxed By The United States
Texas Was Annaxed By The United States Because The People Wanted tHem To Have Freedom.. There Were Poeple In The North Who Did Not Want This Though, Because That Means Texas Would Be Stronger. This Was Important, Because It Gave Texas Their Freedom. -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was when someone found gold by Sawyers Mill or whatever and someone couldn't keep their mouth shut so people found out about the gold and people rushed there to be rich! :D And this is important to the U.S. because it made people rush to California and it was full of people. -
The U.S. Mexican War
The U.S. Mexican War Was Fought Between The U.S. And Mexico. We Have Read That It Was A Very Intence War, And The Mexicans Won. There Was A Peace Treaty Signed Afterward Though. -
Mexican Cession
It was where Mexico finally ended the war with the U.S. and signed a the Treaty of Guadelupe Hildago. This was important to the U.S. because it ended the war with Mexico and the U.S. -
California Becoming A State
After the Mexican War, U.S. and Mexico signed a treaty which signed off the southwest to the U.S. including California. This is important because it expanded the U.S. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase was the purchase of Present-day southern Africa and Southwestern New Mexico. This is Important to the U.S. because it expanded the U.S.
