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The Louisiana Purchase
When the US grew Geographically, politically and economically. The US bought Louisiana from the French. They had bought it for 15,000,000 million dollars for 3 cents an acre making it 5,000,000 acres. This was the biggest buy in US history so far and remains a important part of history due to the fact that Native Americans had been forced out of their own homes. -
The Lewis and Clark Journey
Lewis Meriwether and Clark Williams, 2 brave men set out to find the new frontier for the US and to find out the civilization of the new beginning meaning that they would have to find reasons why the land should be bought. They find different animals, plants, people and most importantly, land full of nice fields. They found straight fields for them to claim and farm on so they could grow into a bigger part of the world. -
The Texas Revolution
It was when Americans came into the Mexican and Native American land to mine for gold but will soon discover that they are about to be attacked by government soldiers and will be destroyed by them. They will lose more then what they had gained in the fight for their newly founded land mass. -
War With Mexico
A armed war between who controlled what region and who had power over it and that. People fought over it and then killed for it just so they could have power. People even had killed the people so they could feel better about losing other things and expensive valuables at the same time. -
The California Gold Rush
When everyone had moved West towards San Francisco to mine for gold. A big part of history where Chinese, Irish, and Mexicans had moved for gold.The main part of this is when the me had fought each other over gold.
