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Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States -
Louisiana Purchase
was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Cumberland Road
Cumberland Road, also called the national road, it was the first federal highway in the United States and for several years the main route to what was then the Northwest -
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is famous in song and story. Proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825, the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east. An engineering marvel when it was built, some called it the Eighth Wonder of the World. -
Indian Removal Act
authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders -
Mormons in Utah
After Smith's death in 1844, the Mormons followed Brigham Young to what would become the Utah Territory. -
Texas Annexation
The Texas annexation was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, 1836. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico -
california gold rush
he discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century.A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush, which peaked in 1852. -
Gadsden purchase
It was the Gadsden Purchase that settled the main boundaries of the United States of America (though Alaska was added in 1867). The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty -
Transcontinental railroad
A transcontinental railroad is a contiguous network of railroad track age that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders.The 1,776 mile long first transcontinental railroad, originally called the "Pacific Railroad" and later the "Overland Route," (690 miles built by the Central Pacific Railroad and 1,086 miles built by the Union Pacific Railroad) that started construction in 1863 and was completed with the joining of the rails
