Westward Expansion

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase
    Deal between France and the States for about 870,000 square miles of land
  • Clermont Steamboat

    Steamboat that operated on the Hudson River
  • Seminole Wars

    Seminole Wars
    war between natives and people in Florida
  • Santa Fe Trail

    trail
  • Erie Canal Opens

    Erie Canal Opens
    was used for shipping goods
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act
    law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.
  • Treaty of New Echota

    provided legal basis for the trail of tears
  • The Alamo

    The Alamo
    batlle for texas between the US and Mexico
  • Texas Statehood

    Texas Statehood
    texas became a state
  • Donner Party

    Donner Party
    group of about 90 setterlers who tried to cross the sierra nevada but died
  • Mexican Cession

    When the US got what is now southern United States
  • Oregon Treaty

    Oregon Treaty
    British gave US oOregon teritory
  • Sutters Mill

    Sutters Mill
    On Janurary 24th, 1848 they found gold in the mill and soon floods of people came rushing into California
  • Oregon Territorty

    Oregon Territorty
    This part was admitted as the state of Oregon from the British
  • California Statehood

    California Statehood
    California became a state
  • First Transcontinental Railroad

    First Transcontinental Railroad
  • Little Big Horn

    Little Big Horn
    Custer's last stand- war
  • Massacre at Wounded Knee

    Massacre at Wounded Knee
    War between native americans and US army
  • Arizona Statehood