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the louisiana purchase
on April 30 1863,U.S representatives in Paris agreed to pay $15 million for about 828,000 square miles of land that stretched from the Mississippi River to Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and nearly doubled the size of the U.S. -
The Lewis and Clark expedition
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the Louisiana purchase in 1803. it comprised a selected group of U.S army volunteers under the command of captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend second lieutenant William Clark. their perilous journey lasted from May 1804 to September 1806. -
Trail of Tears
in 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jacksons Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands of the Mississippi River and migrate to the present day Oklahoma. The Cherokee nation called this the Trail of Tears. -
The California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush began when James W. Marshall at Sutter's mill Coloma California the first to hear the information of the gold rush were the people of Oregon, the sandwich islands, and the latin America, ad they were the first to start flocking the state in late 1848. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
In January 1854 Senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill that divided the land west of Missouri into two territories,Kansas and Nebraska. he argued for popular sovereignty which would allow the settlers of the new territories to decide if slavery would be legal there. -
Homestead Act
signed into law in May 1862 opened up settlement in the western United States,allowing every american,including freed slaving to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. -
The U.S Civil War Ends
The war began when the Confederates bombarded the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12 1861. The war ended in Spring 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major confederate army Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865 -
Buffalo Soldiers formed
Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the U.S 10th cavalry regiment of the U.S army, formed on September 21 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the Negro Cavalry by the Native American tribes they fought in the Indian wars. -
The Transcontinental Railroad
Six years after work began, laborers of the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and Union Pacific Railroad from the east met at Promontory Summit, Utah. It was here on May 10 1869 that Governor Stanford drove the Golden Spike (or the last spike), that symbolized the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. -
Chief Joseph Surrendered
Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce Indians to the U.S general Nelson A. Miles in the Bear Paw Mountains claiming," Hear me, my chiefs: My heart is sick and sad. ... Fearing retaliation by the U.S army, the chief began one of the great retreats in American history.
