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Daniel Boone Kentucky
Daniel Boone was an american pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of United States. -
Eli Whitney invented cotton gin
The South became the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney’s cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
Marcus was an American physician and missionary in Oregon. He and his wife Narcissa started a mission to Cayuse which is now southeastern Washington state. -
The Louisianna Purchase
it was a land deal between the United States and France, where the U.S. got around 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Lewis & Clark Expedition
it was the first American expedition to cross whats now the western part of the U.S. they left in May 1804, from St. Louis making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast. -
War of 1812
it was a military conflict, that lasted two and a half years. Fought by the US against the UK of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies. -
John Fremeont
John Charles Fremont was an American military officer, explorer, politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. -
Texas Revolution
colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the Mexican government. -
Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
it was a part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy. The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to move to whats now considered Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its was tragic for them. -
Manifest Destiny
it was a widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
The Donner Party
a group of American pioneers that were led by George Donner and James F. Reed. They set out for California in a wagon train. They were delayed because of many troubles, so they spent the winter of 1846- 1847 snowbound in Sierra Nevada. -
The Mexican War
America went to war to gain territory from Mexico and expand the nation’s boundary from Texas to California. -
The California Gold Rush
a period that started on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall found gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. -
The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)
a fight between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the US Army. -
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. left around 150 Native Americans dead, in the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux. -
The Oregon Trail
it was a 2,200-mile wagon-wheeled route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
