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- The Louisiana Purchase
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- The Indian Removal Act
- At the end of 17th century, Spain had declared the land west of the Mississippi river, which is known as the Louisiana Territory, as their own. In the early 1800's, France now had control over the Louisiana Territory. At the time the US was only the 13 colonies, so Thomas Jefferson dispatched James Monroe away to France to make a compromise for the Louisiana Territory. When the U.S. Purchased the Louisiana Territory, the U.S. nearly doubled in size.
- The Alamo
- Led by Lewis and Clark, 40 men started their expedition in St. Louis on May 14th, 1802. On their way, they met Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman, and her husband Toussaint Charbonneau, a fur trapper. The married couple joined the journey as Native American tribe translators.
- The Gold Rush
- In the 1820's and 1830's, traveling west had become more encouraged. Lots of American settlers barged into the land which had belonged to 5 Native American groups: the Cherokee, the Creek, the Chickasaw, the Choctaw, and the Seminole.
- The Oregon Trail
- The President of Mexico was very mad to hear about the Texan rebellion. He had sent many Mexican soldiers to San Antonio where 184 Texans had stayed in a building called The Alamo. The rebels were outnumbered by the thousands of Mexicans and nearly all of the Texans were killed in a 13-day battle. The Texans were determined to continue the rebellion, and one defeat wasn't going to stop them.
- In the year 1848, a carpenter names James Marshall discovered gold in a river near the John Sutter sawmill. Sutter had tried to conceal the find, but the secret soon began to spread through newspapers around the world.
- The Oregon Trail was a trail across the U.S. that led from the east to the west. The wild west offered new opportunities, or in other words the the American Dream. People living in the east wanted an chance to make a new start. Families moved west following the Oregon Trail. They stuffed all their things into a wagon and started their 2,000-mile adventure.
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