Westward Expansion Timeline Kain Stiles

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  • The Spanish established the first European settlement in the region near what is now El Paso.

  • The Spanish founded Santa Fe, New Mexico

    1600s

  • France claimed the land drained by the Mississippi River

    1680s

  • The Spanish settled in parts of California and Texas.

    1700s

  • The territory of the United States was entirely east of the Mississippi River.

  • President Thomas Jefferson purchased the vast Louisiana Territory from France.

  • Some Americans had come to believe in the idea of Manifest Destiny.

    1830s

  • The United States annexed Texas.

  • Mexico gave the United States a vast area that later formed all of California, Utah, and Nevada and parts of Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, and New Mexico.

  • Congress passed the Homestead Act.

  • The United States purchased Alaska from Russia for just over $7 million.

  • Silver lured people to Nevada.

    1870s

  • Gold and copper were found in Alaska.

  • More than twice as many people lived in the West as in 1880.

    1900s

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