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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisana Purchase was first established in July 4, 1803. It was made up of 828,000 square miles of the United States. It made America grow in size. It was the beginning of the Oregon Trail. -
Erie Canal being finished
Under construction from 1817, the Erie Canal was finished in 1825, on October 26. The Erie Canal made traveling across New York easier, this caused the flatbottom boats to be invented for something to be able to float across the Erie Canal. -
Indian Removal Act
The Act was strongly supported in the South. The act moved Indians out of states so the growing number of Americans could move and expanded across the growing United States. -
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was along with the Indian Removal Act. Many indians died along this trail as the US army pushed them out of their homes. Some tried to changes there ways of living to see if they would leave them be. But they did not. -
Texas Gaining Independence
The Texas Revolution or Texas War of Independence was an armed conflict between Mexico and settlers in the Texas portion of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. The war lasted from October 2, 1835, to April 21, 1836. However, a war at sea in the Gulf of Mexico between Mexico and Texas would continue into the 1840s. Animosity between the Mexican government and the settlers in Texas, including many settlers of Mexican ancestry, began with the Siete Leyes of 1835, when Mexican President and Gene -
The Alamo
In December 1835 a Federalist army of Texan (or Texian, as they were called) immigrants, American volunteers, and their Tejano allies had captured the town from a Centralist force during the siege of Bexar. With that victory, a majority of the Texan volunteers of the "Army of the People" left service and returned to their families. Nevertheless, many officials of the provisional government feared the Centralists would mount a spring offensive. -
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Oregon Trail being traveled.
The Oregon trail was the expedition for families who wanted to move west, it began in Independence, Missouri and ended in Oregon City. There were many difficulties along the Oregon trail, like water running low or food running low. There were heat troubles due to the weather in some small plains. -
Mormon trail
The Mormon Trail extends from Nauvoo, Illinois, which was the principal settlement of the Latter Day Saints from 1839 to 1846, to Salt Lake City, Utah, which was settled by Brigham Young and his followers beginning in 1847. From Council Bluffs, Iowa to Fort Bridger in Wyoming, the trail follows much the same route as the Oregon Trail and the California Trail; these trails are collectively known as the Emigrant Trail. The Mormon pioneer movement began in 1846 when, in the face of conflicts with -
U.S. Mexican War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the First American Intervention, the Mexican War, or the U.S.–Mexican War, was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. -
Mexican Cession
The Mexican Cession of 1848 is a historical name in the United States for the region of the present day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, but had not been part of the areas east of the Rio Grande which had been claimed by the Republic of Texas, though the Texas Annexation resolution two years earlier had not specified Texas's southern and western boundary. -
California Gold Rush
The California gold rush was when everyone heard about all the gold that was found in California. It brought 300,000 people to California who were looking for gold. People of many different colors came. -
Texas Annexed by the United States
In 1845, the United States of America annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the 28th state. The U.S. thus inherited Texas's border dispute with Mexico; this quickly led to the Mexican-American War, during which the U.S. captured additional territory (known as the Mexican Cession of 1848), extending the nation's borders all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Texas claimed the eastern part of this new territory, comprising parts of present-day Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas -
California becoming a State
The name California once referred to a large area of North America claimed by Spain that included much of modern-day Southwestern United States and the Baja California peninsula. Beginning in the late 18th century, the area known as Alta California, comprising the California territory north of the Baja Peninsula, was colonized by the Spanish Empire as part of New Spain. Western areas of Alta California became the state of California, which was admitted as the 31st state on September 9, 1850. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase (known as Venta de La Mesilla, or Sale of La Mesilla, in Mexico) is a 29,670-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853.
