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Daniel Boone
Was an American explorer and frontiersman. He was skilled in hunting, trapping, and trailblazing. He and about thirty men cut a path into Kentucky to a settlement purchased from the Cherokee. It became a route to the new frontier and called Wilderness Road. -
Eli Whitney
Was an American inventor, he invented the cotton gin. -
Louisiana Purchase
A land deal between the United States and France. The United States purchased about 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. It was called the Louisiana Purchase. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark led Corps of Discovery and civilians to explore the US lands obtained in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest. -
Oregon Trail
A trail lade down by traders and fur tappers, it could only be traveled by horse or foot. But by 1836 it could be traveled by wagons. -
War Of 1812
A military conflict between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies. -
Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
Native American are forcibly removed from their homelands to Indian Territory. The journey was called Trail of tears because of devastating effects. -
Texas Revolution
Colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
Manifest Destiny
The belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
The Mexican War
An armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States. Caused by Manifest Destiny. -
The Donner Party
A group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train. They were delayed by series of mishaps and spent the winter snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains. They suffered form the cold and hunger. No food led to cannibalism. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Marcus Whitman was a physician and missionary. He and his wife Narcissa offered religious instruction and medical services to the Cayuse Indians. But when a measles epidemic broke out and started killing indians, the indian blamed them for it and so were killed. -
The California Gold Rush
Began when James W. Marshall, at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, found gold. Everyone wanted to get their hands on gold. -
John Fremont
An American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. -
The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)
A battle between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. -
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
At battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians. About 300 Sioux men, women, and children died.
