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He was on a military expidation, when he settelted in an area he called Boonesborouh when he encounted indian resistance.
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By the mid-19th century, cotton had become America’s leading export. Despite its success, the gin made little money for Whitney due to patent-infringement issues
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Was land deal between the U.S and the French selling 827,000 Square Miles of land for 15 Million Dollars
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Jefferson hoped that Lewis and Clark would find a water route linking the Columbia and Missouri rivers.
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the Trail was the only feasible way for settlers to get across the mountains.
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The war started because the british attempted to limit the U.S trades.
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The Military removed 20,000 Cherokees from their homes or else they would have to fight slavery,
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The Texas Revolution began with the battle of Gonzales in October 1835 and ended with the battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836
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On his return journey in 1843, he helped lead the first "Great Migration" to the West, guiding a wagon train of one thousand pioneers up the Oregon Trail.
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the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.
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The originator of this group was a man named James Frasier Reed, an Illinois business man, eager to build a greater fortune in the rich land of California.
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In early 1846, Captain Frémont and a small mapping expedition arrived along the border of Mexican California.
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It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration
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A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush, which peaked in 1852.
