Western timeline

By campbellj.2017

  • Daniel Boone (Kentucky)

    1775 Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman.

  • Eli Whitney invented cotton gin

    March, 14, 1794 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and revolutionized the south of the United states

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    1803 Land deal between United States and France, in which the United States bought what is now known as Louisiana

  • Lewis and Clark Expedition

    May,1804 Expedition of americans across the western part of United states.

  • The Oregon Trail

    From about 1811-1840 the Oregon Trail was laid down by traders and fur trappers. It could only be traveled by horseback or on foot.

  • War of 1812

    January, 18, 1812 A war fought for 2 and a half years between United States and other countries

  • 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. Born: January 21, 1813, Savannah, GA
    Died: July 13, 1890, New York City, NY
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    The Texas Revolution

    The Texas Revolution began with the Battle of Gonzales in October 1835 and ended with the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836

  • Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

    1836 he started a mission to the Cayuse in what is now southeastern Washington state in 1836

  • Indian Removal/Trail of Tears

    1838 the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
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    The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)

    The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River inMontana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.

  • Manifest Destiny-

    1845 article on the annexation of Texas published in the July-August 1845 edition of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, which he edited.
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    The Mexican-American War

    The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil.

  • 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. Delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada.
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    The California Gold Rush

    The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a period in American History which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma,California.

  • The Massacre at Wounded Knee-Event

    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.