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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose fronter exploits made him one of the fir -
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Eli Whitney Invented Cotton Gin
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 -
The Louisiana Purchase
was a land deal between the united states and France, in which the U.S. ocquired approximately 827,00 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million -
War of 1812
The war of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdon of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and it Native American -
Indian Removal / Trail of Tears
Indian Removal / Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Marcus Whitman was an American physician and missionary in the oregan country. Along with his whife Narcissa, he started a mission to the Cayuse in what is now southeastern washington state in 1836 -
Manifest Destiny (July - August )
The 19th century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable -
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. Delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, thing spent the winter of 1847-47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. -
The California Gold Rush
was a period in American History which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Suther's Mill in Colonma, California -
John Fremont In California
John Fremont in California was an American military officer, explorer, an politianian who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the Untied States -
Texas RevikutioN
when colonists in the mexican province of texas rebelled against the increasing centralist mexican government