Westward Expansion
- Created by: Rosemiddleton
- Created on: 30-12-20 17:54
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1785 Land Ordinance |
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1796 Land Purchase |
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April 1803 Louisiana Purchase |
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May 1804 Lewis and Clark |
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1807 Steamboats |
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1806-07 Lieutenant Pike |
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1808 National Road |
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September 1810 Baton Rouge |
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1812 America declare war on Britain |
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1813 Florida |
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December 1814 Treaty of Ghent |
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1816 Canals |
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1817 Canals |
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1818 The Convention of 1818 |
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1819 Transcontinental Treaty |
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1819 The Panic of 1819 |
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1819 Major Long |
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1820s Fur traders and trappers |
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1830 Roads |
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1832 Land Purchase |
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1838 National Road |
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1840 Canals |
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1841 The Pre-emption Act |
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1840 Roads |
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1845 Texas |
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February 1849Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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1857 Mail services |
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1859 Comstock Lode |
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1860 Pony express |
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1862 Homestead Act |
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1862 Morrill Land Grant Act |
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July 1862 Pacific Railroad Act |
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1866 'Long-drive' |
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1865 Wheat |
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1867 Abilene |
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Early 1870s Black Hills of Dakota |
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1871 Cattle |
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1872 Yellowstone National Park |
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1873 Timber Culture Act |
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1873 Depression |
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1873 Barbed wire |
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1877 Desert Land Act |
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1880s boom |
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1880 Ranching |
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1885-7 Winters |
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1890s Transcontinental lines |
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1900 Wheat |
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