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Daniel Boone (Kentucky)
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. -
Eli Whitney invented cotton gin
A machine the revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
The louisiana Purchase
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 -
Lewis and Clark Expediton
Lewis and Clark set out on an amazing expedition across the Louisiana Territory. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
She was their thrid child on nine as their eldest daughter, narcissa helped with the upbringing of her younger brothers and sisters. -
War of 1812
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 -
John Fremont (In California)
He spent his boyhood in charleston and was educated in the scientific deopartment -
Indian Removal/trail of Tears
Over 20,000 Cherokees were forced to march westard along the Trail of TEars about a quarter of them died along the way -
Texas Revolution
San Antonio de Béxar had long been an important place in texas. -
The Oregon Trail
The trail served as a natural corridor as the United States moved from the eastern half of the continent toward the west coast. -
Manifest Destiny
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 -
the mexican war
The mexian american war marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. -
The Donner Party
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. -
The california Gold Rush
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
