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An American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States
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American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.
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American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country. Along with his wife, he started a mission to the Cayuse
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The United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic.
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Having started upstream on the Missouri River from their St. Louis-area camp—where they had been preparing for the expedition.
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It's a 2,170-mile historic east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
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A military conflict,fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies.
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Is 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.
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Began when colonists (primarily from the United States) in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government.
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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.
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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
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Separates from the other wagon trains and takes the left-hand road to Fort Bridger
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When gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
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Known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass
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The troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota