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He was one of the first folk heroes of America. He was an explorer, frontiersman, woodsman, and an American pioneer.
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He invented the cotton gin, and it was a great invention during the Industrial Revolution.
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He was a missionary, and he started his mission to the Cayuse with his wife Narcissa. Marcus was also an American physician
09/04/1802 – 11/29/1847 -
There was a land deal between the United States, and France which the United States had approximately 827 thousand sq. miles of land. All the land they had costed 15 million dollars, and it was West of the Mississippi River.
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They crossed the western part of the U.S., in order to reach the Pacific Coast, and it was the first expedition ever.
05/14/1804-09/23/1806 -
Great Britain was locked into a long conflict with Napoleon, and they both attempted to block the U.S. from trading with the other.
06/18/1812-03/23/1815 -
He was a politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. Also, John Fremont was an explorer, and an American military officer.
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There were more than 20,000 Cherokees that were forced to walk along the Trail of Tears. Almost ¼ of them died on the journey. The Indian tribes had to leave the ancestral lands, because of the military leader/President.
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This was a route that was almost 3000 miles that allowed the migrating of the early pioneers to the western part of the U.S. It took almost 30 years for the Trail to be laid down.
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It was a creed that the expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was inevitable and justified.
07/1845-08/1845 -
This was a war between Mexico and United States, and the it was an armed conflict.
04/25/1846 – 02/02/1848 -
It was a group of Americans setting out to California in a wagon trail.
10/28/1846 -
James W. Marshall found gold in the Sutters Mill
01/24/1848-01/24/1855 -
It was an engagement between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes
06/25/1876 – 06/26/1876 -
The battle between Lakota Sioux Indians and the U.S. military troops.
12/29/1890