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Daniel Boone
He is one of the most widely known American frontiersmen. Boone's fame starts from his exploits during the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. -
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Eli Whitney
Born in Westboro, Massachusetts and studied at Yale before going to invent the cotton gin which was a device that highly streamlined the process of extracting fiber from cotton seeds. -
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Marcus Whitman
He was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country. Him and his wife, Narcissa started a mission to the Cayuse in what is now southeastern Washington state in 1836. Which later the area developed as a trading post and a stop along the Oregon Trail. -
Louisiana Purchase
A land deal that was between the United States and France, which in the end the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for 15 million dollars. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark was commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwest territory in order to observe a transcontinental route and natural resources. -
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Narcissa Whitman
Narcissa was a missionary along with her husband Marcus and she was the first European-American woman to cross the Rocky Mountains in 1836 on her way to found the Protestant Whitman Mission near modern-day Walla Walla, Washington. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812, conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent. -
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John Fremont
John Fremont was 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. -
Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in the present-day Oklahoma -
Texas Revolution
The colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
Oregon Trail
A major route that people took when migrating to the western part of the United States. -
Manifest Destiny
A belief that was widely held that the destiny of American settlers was to expand and move across the continent to spread their traditions and their institutions. -
The Mexican War
A war between the United States and Mexico started because America wanted to gain territory from Mexico and expand the nation's boundary from Texas to California. -
The California Gold Rush
Was the largest mass migration in American history since it brought about 300,000 people to California. -
The Donner Party
A group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed attempted to take a new and supposedly shorter route to California, but they encountered rough terrain and numerous delays, and eventually got trapped by heavy snowfall high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Which apparently led to cannibalism to survive through the winter. -
Battle of the Little Bighorn
A battle against a band of Lakto Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, there had been rising tensions between the two groups since the discovery of gold on Native American lands. -
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
A battle between the U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indian's at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.