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The Florida Territory Acquisition was purchased from Spain for $5 million in assumed claims under the Adams-Onis Treaty.
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Missouri Indian trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, sells his goods at an enormous profit, and makes plans to return the next year over the route, which will become known as the Santa Fe Trail.
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In 1843, about 1,000 men, women, and children climbed aboard their wagons and steered their horses west out of the small town of Elm Grove, Missouri.
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The Mormon Trail is when Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Utah’s Valley of the Great Salt Lake.
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The California Gold Rush was a time where people in California found gold, so everyone thought there was a gold rush, so everyone came to California in search of gold.
