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Declaration of the Independence of the United-Sates -
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The US bought from France the Louisiana Purchase for 15 million dollars. It doubled the size of the country. -
This 2 year expedition had for goal to explore and reach the Pacific Ocean. It permitted to create commerce with the East and to continue the expension of the United-States with news informations.
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Thomas Jefferson end the slave Trade so that no "new" slaves can come to America from Africa.
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The USA declared war on England over a number of issues, one which was the impressment U.S sailor
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An Anglo-Indian force under Tecumesh are defeated by a U.S army in Canada. Tecamesh is killed in the battle.
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Texas becomes an independent republic after defeating Mexico in the Texas Revolution. Sam Houston is the first president.
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A wagon route of 2,200-mile, it's was used by settlers to travel from Missouri to Oregon / California.
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Texas becomes the 28th state in the US. The current president at the time James K. Polk had a hand in this
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American settlers migrated by wagons as a group from Midwest to California. Only the half of the 89 settlers survived and reached California; because of the snow in the mountains and the lack of food; they ended up eating each other.
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The frist person who found gold was James W Marshall -
The California gold rush brought a mass-migration in the US (approximatively 300 000 people)
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The Homestead Act (signed by theUS President A. Lincoln) granted voluntary settlers 160 acres of land for free if they lived on it for 5 years.It permitted the development of the Wild West -
The raiolroad act was signed by president Lincoln in 1863.
The goal of the Transcontinental was to unify the US (East & West); despite the Civil War of 1861. -
This painting represent the West, a glimmer of hope. The people are going to settle in the WildWest, with a contrast between the darkness and the light (that represent the West). Made by an American-German painter Albert.B. -
American Progress is a famous painting by John Gast.
The painting symbolizes the expansion of the United States; the west expension is guided by Columbia (representing America like uncle sam) -
Representing the event in the 1830s this painting shows the colonization with the Indian Removal Act; where Native American were exchanged for some west lands. 4 000 Cherokees died due to sarvation and disease.