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End of American Revolution, 1783 (short)

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End of American Revolution, 1783 (short)

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The American revolution was between the American colonies and Great Britain. It started in 1765 and ended in 1783.

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For the of $15 million, the US bought the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase territory was a huge amount of land. The Louisiana territory was larger than the entire US at the time, and no one had fully explored that far. Congress sent Lewis and Clarke to explore. The Louisiana Purchase was an expansion west for their "Manifest Destiny".

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Congress chose captain Meriwether, along with his partner Lieutenant William Clarke, to lead an expedition. They led 50 men called the "Corps of Discovery". In May of 1804, the Lewis and Clarke expedition set sail. It left St. Lewis and followed the Mississippi river. They saw the Pacific ocean November of 1805. They returned the next year full of information and enthusiasm. Meriwether Lewis set in motion the expansion of the US towards the West, and setting in motion the removal of Native Americans.

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Lieutenant William Clarke was chosen by congress to lead 50 men in an expedition. The expedition was to discover new things and routes in the Louisiana territory. It was also to make a map and see if there was a faster and easier trade route. They set sail in May of 1804, following the Mississippi river. Along the way they met their interpreter Sacagawea and her husband who had a baby boy. They saw the Pacific ocean November of 1805. They returned the next year full of information and enthusiasm. Lieutenant William Clarke, along with his group of men and Meriwether Lewis, set in motion the expansion of the US towards the West, and setting in motion the removal of Native Americans.

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William Henry Harrison attacked and defeated the Shawnee people. The Battle took place near the Tippecanoe river in 1811.

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In the 19th century Native Americans, in the Great Lakes region, created Tecumseh's confederacy. It was based on Tenskwatawa's teachings, The Prophet.

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Between 1830 and 1850, the American government forcefully removed 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" as part of an ethnic purge, after the Indian Removal Act was approved in 1830. Members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw tribes were violently and forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands. They where moved from the Southeast of the United States too newly created Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. The discovery of gold outside Dahlonega, Georgia, in 1828 sparked the Georgia Gold Rush, which led to the Cherokee's last forcible removal in 1838. This happened because the idea of Manifest Destiny was so big.

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On May 28, 1830 the Indian Removal Act was passed by President Andrew Jackson. The law allowed allowed the President to give unsettled land West of the Mississippi for Native Americans in exchange for the traditional lands of the Native Americans. A few tribes went peacefully. Most tribes resisted though and were brutally forced to leave. Andrew Jackson and his successor Martin Van Buren displaced about 60,000 Natives from at least 18 different tribes. The Indian Removal act was a way to get land that the whites thought they should be allowed, even though people where already there. It was and is a terrible result of Manifest Destiny that should have never happened.

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1831 in Virginia one of the most famous  slave rebels led a violent uprising. His name was Nat turner and he was hung, his uprising scared many southerners.

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The 2,000-mile overland route was used by about 300,000 and 400,000 peoplee to get to the Willamette Valley, Puget Sound, Utah, and California between 1840 and 1860. Wagons moving between ten and twenty miles every day meant the journey could take up to six months.

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The annexation of Texas caused some unrest between America and Mexico. The Mexicans  did not see Texas as an independent place. Texans wanted to have statehood, and America desired to expand westward. The Americans won the war. It was confirmed with the treaty of the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty in 1848. Mexicans still held resentment towards America for the atrocities during the war and their loss of land. The Mexican-American war was a way to get more land to achieve Americas "Manifest Destiny".

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When gold was found in California by James W. Marshall, it sparked the California Gold Rush. It brought 30,000 people to California from the rest of America and abroad. The Gold Rush killed many Native Californians from disease, starvation, and the California genocide. Natives where attacked and pushed of their native lands by gold-seekers, also called forty-niners. The people thought they deserved and should get the gold, no matter how many people died along the way.

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The Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty, 1848 (small)

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The Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty, 1848 (small)

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America won 1.2 million square miles, which would become California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and most of Arizona and New Mexico. The US had to pay $15 million to Mexico.

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In 1854 the US wanted to build a transcontinental railroad. To do this they bought a strip of land from Mexico. The land was small compared to many other land purchased before. It costed 10 million dollars. The Gadsden purchase got America more land and moved them westward to continue their "Manifest Destiny".