Western Expansion Timeline

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    Daniel Boone

    An American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, he was a frontier exploits and made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
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    Eli Whitney

    An American inventor that is known for the investing the cotton gin. This was one of the main key inventions in the industrial Revolution and the shaped in the economy of the Antebellum South.
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    Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

    An American physician that missionary in the Oregon Country that along with his wife name Narcissa he started his own mission to the Cayuse that is now called the southeastern Washington state in 1836.
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    Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

    An American physician that missionary in the Oregon Country that along with his wife name Narcissa he started his own mission to the Cayuse that is now called the southeastern Washington state in 1836.
  • Lewis and Clark Expedition

    The Lewis and Clark Expedition is also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition. The first Americans expedition that cross what is now the western portion of the United States.
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    John Fremont

    He was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who also became the first candidate of the anti slavery Republican party for the office of President of the United States.
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    John Fremont

    He was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who also became the first candidate of the anti slavery Republican party for the office of President of the United States.
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    Texas Revolution

    The Texas Revolution it all began when the colonists in the Mexican province from the Texas rebelled in the against in the increasingly centralist Mexican government.
  • Indian Removal/Trail of Tears

    The Indian Removal/Trial of Tears was the resulted by the enforcement of the Treaty of the New Echota and the agreement signed under the Provisions of the Indian that was removal act in 1830. In that case it exchanged the indian land in the East for the lands in the west of the Mississippi River.
  • Manifest Destiny

    The Manifest Destiny happened throughout the 19th century that it doctrine or belief expansion of the United States that throughout the American continents in both justified and inevitable.
  • The Donner Party

    They was a group of Americans pioneers that is led by the George Donner and James F. In May 1846 the Reed who was set to the California in the wagon. They was displayed with all the series of mishaps and mistakes that was spent by the winter of 1846-1847 in the snowbound in the Sierra Nevada.
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    The Mexican War

    The Mexican War is also knows as the Mexican War in the United States this war started by the invasion of Mexico and armed conflict between the United States of the America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848.
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    The California Gold Rush

    The largest mass in the migration in the American history that it brought about 300,000 people into California. The California Gold Rush started January 24, 1848 it all started when James W. Marshall found gold in his place of the land at the Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
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    The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)

    This Battle was also known the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and commonly referred in the Custer's Last Stand.
  • The Massacre at Wounded Knee

    Occurred on December 29,1890 near the Wounded Knee Creek the Lakota pine Ridge Indian Reservation the Untied States of the South Dakota.
  • Oregon Trail

    Is a computer game that was originally developed by Don Rawitsch and Bill Heinemann.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    In 1803 the land that is between the United States and France, United States acquired approximately 827,000 square miles that is land west of the Mississippi river for the$15 million dollars. The French vast the territory of Louisiana.
  • War of 1812

    The War of 1812 stated June 18,1812-Feb 17,1815 it was conflict in the fought between the United States and the Great Britain and the British violations of the United States maritime on the rights. The was ended with the exchange ratification in the Treaty of the Ghent.