Early 19th Century American Frontier

  • Missouri Compromise is Passed

  • Railroads Appear in the United States

    Railroads Appear in the United States
  • Landscape with Indian

    Landscape with Indian
  • John O'Sullivan Coins the Term Manifest Destiny

  • Period: to

    Mexican-American War

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act creates the states of Kansas and Nebraska. This creates a fight over whether or not slavery should be legal in the new territory of Kansas after the Missouri compromise.
  • A Tight Fix

    A Tight Fix
  • Valley of the Catawissa in Autumn

    Valley of the Catawissa in Autumn
  • Period: to

    Construction of the Trans-Continental Railroad