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In 1769 Boone led an expedition and discovered a trail to the far west through the Cumberland Gap. In 1775, he settled an area he called Boonesborough in Kentucky, but faced Indian resistance.
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A machine the revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
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Was a land deal between the united states and france, in which the U.S acquired approximately 970,200 square miles of land west of the Mississippi river for $15 million dollars
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Lewis and Clark set out on an amazing expedition across the Louisiana Territory.
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She was their thrid child on nine as their eldest daughter, narcissa helped with the upbringing of her younger brothers and sisters.
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The united states took on the greatest naval power in the world, great britain in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country's future
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He spent his boyhood in charleston and was educated in the scientific deopartment
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Over 20,000 Cherokees were forced to march westard along the Trail of TEars about a quarter of them died along the way
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San Antonio de Béxar had long been an important place in texas.
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The trail served as a natural corridor as the United States moved from the eastern half of the continent toward the west coast.
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The phrase was first employed by John L. O'Sullivan in an article on the annexation of Texas published in the July-August 1845 edition of the united states magazine and democratic review, which he edited the term manifest destiny originated in the 1840s
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The mexian american war marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil.
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a group of nearly 90 emigrants left springfield, illinois and headed west. Led by brothers jacob and George Donner, the group attempted to take a new and supposedly shorter route to California.
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THe discovery of gold nuggets in the sacramento valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most signifcant events to shape american histroy
