Western timeline

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone
    He was a American pioneer, explorer, and frontierman.
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and it made removing seeds from cotton fiber a lot faster and it had become America's leading export.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    The United States purchased approximatley 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France. It was known as one of the most important achievements of Thomas Jefferson's presidency.
  • Lewis and Clark expedition

    Lewis and Clark expedition
    Thomas Jefferson decided after the louisiana purchase the new territiory needed to be explored beyond the rocky mountains, so he sent his secretary Meriwether Lewis. Lewis got help from William Clark.
  • War of 1812

    War of 1812
    It started over a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US as a part of the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Trail of tears

    Trail of tears
    The name was given do to the force relocation of Native American.
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny
    The angalo saxons used the word to express their beliefs to expand their civilizations
  • Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

    Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
    They was an important role in the opening of the organ trail