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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He is best known for exploring and settling the frontier of Kentucky. -
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Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. He crafted nails, canes, and ladies' hatpins before inventing the cotton gin. He also invented the milling machine but never patented it. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase deal between the United States and France, U.S. acquired bought 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark Expedition was the first American expedition to cross and it is now the western portion of the United States. It began near St. Louis, made its way westward, and passed through the continental divide to reach the Pacific coast. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 1812 to February 1815 it was fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom. -
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John Fremont
John Charles Frémont or 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. -
Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution began when people in the Mexican province of Texas rises against the centralist Mexican government. -
Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Native Territory. -
Manifest Destiny
The19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
The Mexican War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexican War or the Invasion of Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848. -
The Donner Party
The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner-Reed Party) was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846. -
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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
The Whitman massacre (also known as the Walla Walla massacre and the Whitman Incident) was the murder of Oregon missionaries Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa, along with eleven others, on November 29, 1847. Marcus Whitman(1802-1847),Narcissa Whitman(1808-1847). -
The California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. ... All in all, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. -
The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass[1] and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota. . -
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. -
Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium in 1974.
