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The Lousiana Purchase was when President Jefferson buys the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. Buying Louisiana doubled the size of the U.S.
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Lewis and Clark were the first middle aged american men explorers to cross the westeren portion of the United States. They left from the Mississippi River in 1804.
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The Indian Removal Act required Natives to move West of the Mississippi River. It also required natives to submit to the laws or they were forced to move.
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The Native Tribes were forced to travel to Oklahoma. Many natives died along the way.
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People start traveling west in wagons. About 300,000 people used the trail over the next 20 years that followed.
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The journalist John O' Sullivan explained that it was "Manifest Destiny" by moving west.In or words he believed along with others that it was God's will to take over the land ("destinned").
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The Mexican-American War was a war fought over the rights of Texas. After the war the Untied States paid Mexico $15 million for that land, which would later become several different states.
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A man named Bringham Young brougt the mormans to Utha after experiencing religious persecution. The mormans moved to Salt Lake, Utah.
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The Oregon Treaty was when England signs a treaty. The treaty handled the territory of Oregon.
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James Marshall discovers gold at Sutter's Mill.Soon word spread all over the town even though he wanted to keep it seceret.
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In 1849 around 90,000 people went to California to find gold. They left all they owned, even families and went and hoped to find gold, by doing this they earned the name "forty-niners"
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The Pony Express is when people began delivering mail. They got mail to people by horse riding.
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The first telegraph gets running people start using it. But The Pony Express shuts down.
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The Homestead Act was when the U.S government offers free land to farmers who agree to living on that land for five years. Many people rush to places like Oklahoma to claim their land.
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The U.S agrees to help fund a railroad. They funded a railroad from California to Missouri.
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The Union Pacific railroad and the cental railroad meet in a place called Promomtory, Utah and the railroad is finished.
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In 1872 the Yellowstone National park is the first national park it was dedicated to president Ulysess S Grant.
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In 1874 another gold finding happens. There was gold findings in the Black hills of South dakota.
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The barbed wire was created for farmers. The farmers used barbed wire to build fences and keep their cattle in.
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In 1890 the government of the U.S announces the the West has been explored.
