Western Expanision Timeline

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    Daniel Boone

    American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, frontiersman, explored and founded and settled in Kentucky
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    Eli Whitney

    an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    1803 Thomas Jefferson purchases the land from France and the authority of the land goes to America.
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    Louis and Clark Expedition

    first expedition to cross the western part of the U.S.
  • Oregon Trail

    A large trail traveling through multiple states, used by fur traders
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    war of 1812

    conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights
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    John C Fremont

    politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States
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    Trail of Tears

    The forced removal of different natives to make room for the advancement of the U.S.
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    Texas revolution

    when colonists rebelled against the Mexican governement
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    The Mexican war

    was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States
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    The Donner Party

    A group of pioneers who set out for California on a wagon trail
  • California Gold Rush

    the time when gold was found and caused a surge of people desperately looking for gold and moving to the state to attempt to find some.
  • Manifest Destiny

    the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  • Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

    Marcus was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country. Narcissa was an American missionary in the Oregon Country of what would become the state of Washington
  • The Battle of Little Bighorn

    was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army
  • The Massacre at Wounded Knee

    the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota and it resulted in a large killing of lots of the tribe