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The United States signed a treaty with France for 828,000 square miles for $11,250,000.
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They were actulally in a estuary about 20 miles from the Pacific Ocean, they would eventual reach the Pacific by the middle of the month.
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Joseph Smith has a version that will led him to creat a new church, the Church of Latter Day Saints; commonly called the Mormons.
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Was signed by Presidnet Andrew Jackson, authorized the president to grant land deads west of the Mississippi. During the fall and winter of 1838-1839 the Cherokees were frocabley removed from their homelands in Georgia and marched acrossed the south to lands in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma.
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Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill, California by James Wilson Marshall. This led to the '49s comming to California to claim their richies.