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Greatly sped up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
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A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars.
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Explorers of the West.
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The War of 1812 was a military conflict between the United States and Great Britain.
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Born in 1734 an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then part of Virginia but on the other side of the mountains from the settled areas.
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Gave the federal government the power to relocate any Native Americans in the east to territory that was west of the Mississippi River.
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Military conflict between the government of Mexico and Texas colonists
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Started a mission to the Cayuse in what is now southeastern Washington state.
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During the 1840s, when he led four expeditions into the American West, that era's penny press and admiring historians accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder.
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Attitude prevalent. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico.
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Armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico.
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A group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train.
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Gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
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2,200-mile historic east-west large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon