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Louisiana Purchase
The United States bought 828,000 square miles of land from France in 1803. The French controlled this region from 1699 until 1762 when it became Spanish property because France gave it to Spain as a present, since they were allies. but under Napoleon Bonaparte, France received the aspirations to build an empire in North America so the territory was taken back In 1800. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was first stated by the fifth American president James Monroe during the state of the Union Address to Congress; his seventh in a row on December 2, 1823. The Napoleonic Wars was provided as the inspiration for the Monroe Doctrine. It was based on the American anxiety related to the possible revival of monarchies in Europe. -
Indian Removal Act
After requesting both political and military action on removing Native Americans from the southern states of America in 1829, President Andrew Jackson signed this into the law on May 28,1830. Although it only gave the right to consult for their exit from areas to the east of Mississippi River and the relocation was supposed to be free. -
Battle of Alamo
The objective San Antonio de Valero, established in the early 18th century, was situated along the San Antonio River. By 1800 -
Oregon Trail
The 2,200 mile east-west trail served as a critical transportation route for emigrants traveling from Missouri to Oregon and other places in the west during the mid 1800s. Travelers were motivated by dreams of gold and rich farmlands, but they were also energized by difficult economic times in the east and the diseases like yellow fever and malaria that were decimating the Midwest around 1837. -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold was the largest mass migration in American history since it brought about 300,000 people to California. It started on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall found gold on his piece of land at Sutter's Mill in Coloma. -
Pony Express
Three men in the mid 1800s had an idea to open up a mail delivery system that reached from the Midwest all the way to California. The scarcity of quick communication between the mid west and the west was the spotlight by the looming threat of a civil war. Russell, Waddell and majors designed a system that spanned a number of one hundred stations, each at least two hundred forty miles long, across the country -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act was a U.S. law that allowed adult Americans to claim ownership of land in the United States at the lowest cost. The first Homestead Act was passed on May 20, 1862 for the purposes of speeding up the deal of the western areas. It was put into the law by Abraham Lincoln. -
Sand Creek Massacre
On November 29,1864, seven hundred members of the Colorado Territory militia embarked on an attack of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian villages. The militia was led by U.S. Col. John Chivington, a Methodist preacher, as well as a freemason. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was an event of movement with an approximate 1000,000 people searching the Klondike area North Western Canada in the Yukon area. It's also called the Yukon Gold rush, The last great gold rush and The Alaska Gold Rush.
