Westward Expansion Timeline

Daniel Boone

1767

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Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston Demonstrate the Speed of the Clermont

1807

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Apache Wars

1849

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Gadsden Purchase

1853

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The Treaty of Kanagawa with Japan

1854

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The Ostend Manifesto

1854

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Pony Express

1860

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Homestead Act

1862

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Purchase of Alaska

1867

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The Transcontinental Railroad

1869

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