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Westward Expansion Project
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louisiana purchase
The louisiana purchase was when the Americans bought a lot of land for 15 million and we expanded westward. The land cost .5 a acre. -
Erie Canal Began Building
The contructionof the Erie Canal began in Rome,New York and for 9 years it was planned and propossed. -
Indian removal act
The idian removal act is when Andrew jackson passed it as a law to romove indians away from there land so they could expand. -
The Alamo
The alamo was a battle that lasted 13 days when mexicans attack because they feared the americans would try to take over. -
Texas gains independence
The texas independence is when the texans gained independence from the mexico. -
The trail of tears
The trail of tears is when americans took the indians and walked them west so they had more land to explore and live on. -
Mormon trail
The mormon trail is when religious people left for a new beginning for there religion because they were being harresed by the communtitys they lived in. -
Oregon trail
The oregon trail is when many farmers and ranchers, miners, bussiness men made a trip west on the trail and started a new beggining. -
Texas annexed by the united states
texas was annexed on july 4th they decided they want texas as a state of the united states -
The U.S. Mexican War
The mexican war was the fist major conflict on the manifest destiny. The tension of mexico and america was on a rise since the last war they fought at the Alamo. -
Mexican secession
US calvarly ignored an order from the mexican army to retreat to the nueces river and insteed of advancing south to the rio grandefighting broke out three weeks later congress declared war on mexico. -
California becomes a state
California became a state when they discover gold and other things from there and many people moved west to start over. -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold rush is when alot of people went west when they heard gold was in california so everybody fought to get there spots some were even killed. -
Gadsden Purchase Treaty
The Treaty was when america bought the rest of the land to the sea they needed to complete there manifest destiny and the land costed .33 a acre and they signed a treaty so america couldnt take over mexico.
