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 MAYFLOWER                                                      The Mayflower was an English ship that transported the first Pilgrims to America for a better life.
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 A Poineer is the first person to settle into a new country. These Pioneers settled in Idaho to get a better life.
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the pony express was

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 the pony express was more than twice as fast as it conparisons!
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this is the bull run

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 this is the bull run. The first bull run was in July 21, 1861! It also did a lot of damage...
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 PILGRIMS                                            The pilgrims were the first English settlers of Plymouth
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 A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area
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 FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN                                    The first battle of Bull Run was fought on July 21, 1861 It was the first major battle of the Civil War
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 A wagon back then was what they traveled with to make a new life in Oregon. Also they used it to travel usually oxen pull the wagon. 
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 A rail rail road is a buch of tracks where trains can travel
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The Mexican-American War was you guessed it, between America and Mexico.It was between April 1846-February 1848.

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Wagons were used by people going West. They were not the fastest way, but they were key for traveling West. Many people used them. They had a certain weight limit. By Ethan M

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Thomas Jefferson believed that the westward expansion was the key to the nations health. The Westward Expansion was when people traveled trails to migrate west for fortune and wealth.

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1. Manifest Destiny

2. Westward Expansion and Slavery

3. Westward Expansion and the Mexican War

4. Westward Expansion and the Compromise of 1850

5. Bleeding Kansas

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States. To Jefferson, westward expansion was the key to the nation's health: He believed that a republic depended on an independent, virtuous citizenry for its survival, and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land ownership, especially the ownership of small farms. ("Those who labor in the earth," he wrote, "are the chosen people of God.") In order to provide enough land to sustain this ideal population of virtuous yeomen, the United States would have to continue to expand. The westward expansion of the United States is one of the defining themes of 19th-century American history, but it is not just the story of Jefferson's expanding "empire of liberty." On the contrary, as one historian writes, in the six decades after the Louisiana Purchase, westward expansion "very nearly destroy[ed] the republic."

Manifest Destiny

By 1840, nearly 7 million Americans-40 percent of the nation's population-lived in the trans-Appalachian West. Following a trail blazed by Lewis and Clark, most of these people had left their homes in the East in search of economic opportunity. Like Thomas Jefferson, many of these pioneers associated westward migration, land ownership and farming with freedom. In Europe, large numbers of factory workers formed a dependent and seemingly permanent working class; by contrast, in the United States, the western frontier offered the possibility of independence and upward mobility for all. In 1843, one thousand pioneers took to the Oregon Trail as part of the " Great Emigration."

Did you know? In 1853, the Gadsden Purchase added about 30,000 square miles of Mexican territory to the United States and fixed the boundaries of the "lower 48" where they are today.

In 1845, a journalist named John O'Sullivan put a name to the idea that helped pull many pioneers toward the western frontier. Westward migration was an essential part of the republican project, he argued, and it was Americans' " manifest destiny " to carry the "great experiment of liberty" to the edge of the continent: to "overspread and to possess the whole of the [land] which Providence has given us," O'Sullivan wrote. The survival of American freedom depended on it.

Westward Expansion and Slavery

Meanwhile, the question of whether or not slavery would be allowed in the new western states shadowed every conversation about the frontier. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise had attempted to resolve this question: It had admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, preserving the fragile balance in Congress. More important, it had stipulated that in the future, slavery would be prohibited north of the southern boundary of Missouri (the 36º30' parallel) in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.

However, the Missouri Compromise did not apply to new territories that were not part of the Louisiana Purchase, and so the issue of slavery continued to fester as the nation expanded. The Southern economy grew increasingly dependent on "King Cotton" and the system of forced labor that sustained it. Meanwhile, more and more Northerners came to believed that the expansion of slavery impinged upon their own liberty, both as citizens-the pro-slavery majority in Congress did not seem to represent their interests-and as yeoman farmers. They did not necessarily object to slavery itself, but they resented the way its expansion seemed to interfere with their own economic opportunity.

Westward Expansion and the Mexican War

Despite this sectional conflict, Americans kept on migrating West in the years after the Missouri Compromise was adopted. Thousands of people crossed the Rockies to the Oregon Territory, which belonged to Great Britain, and thousands more moved into the Mexican territories of California, New Mexico and Texas. In 1837, American settlers in Texas joined with their Tejano neighbors (Texans of Spanish origin) and won independence from Mexico. They petitioned to join the United States as a slave state.

This promised to upset the careful balance that the Missouri Compromise had achieved, and the annexation of Texas and other Mexican territories did not become a political priority until the enthusiastically expansionist cotton planter James K. Polk was elected to the presidency in 1844. Thanks to the maneuvering of Polk and his allies, Texas joined the union as a slave state in February 1846; in June, after negotiations with Great Britain, Oregon joined as a free state.

That same month, Polk declared war against Mexico, claiming (falsely) that the Mexican army had "invaded our territory and shed American blood on American soil." The Mexican-American War proved to be relatively unpopular, in part because many Northerners objected to what they saw as a war to expand the "slaveocracy." In 1846, Pennsylvania Congressman David Wilmot attached a proviso to a war-appropriations bill declaring that slavery should not be permitted in any part of the Mexican territory that the U.S. might acquire. Wilmot's measure failed to pass, but it made explicit once again the sectional conflict that haunted the process of westward expansion.

Westward Expansion and the Compromise of 1850

In 1848, the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican War and added more than 1 million square miles, an area larger than the Louisiana Purchase, to the United States. The acquisition of this land re-opened the question that the Missouri Compromise had ostensibly settled: What would be the status of slavery in new American territories? After two years of increasingly volatile debate over the issue, Kentucky Senator Henry Clay proposed another compromise. It had four parts: first, California would enter the Union as a free state; second, the status of slavery in the rest of the Mexican territory would be decided by the people who lived there; third, the slave trade (but not slavery) would be abolished in Washington, D.C.; and fourth, a new Fugitive Slave Act would enable Southerners to reclaim runaway slaves who had escaped to Northern states where slavery was not allowed.

Bleeding Kansas

But the larger question remained unanswered. In 1854, Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed that two new states, Kansas and Nebraska, be established in the Louisiana Purchase west of Iowa and Missouri. According to the terms of the Missouri Compromise, both new states would prohibit slavery because both were north of the 36º30' parallel. However, since no Southern legislator would approve a plan that would give more power to "free-soil" Northerners, Douglas came up with a middle ground that he called "popular sovereignty": letting the settlers of the territories decide for themselves whether their states would be slave or free.

Northerners were outraged: Douglas, in their view, had caved to the demands of the "slaveocracy" at their expense. The battle for Kansas and Nebraska became a battle for the soul of the nation. Emigrants from Northern and Southern states tried to influence the vote. For example, thousands of Missourians flooded into Kansas in 1854 and 1855 to vote (fraudulently) in favor of slavery. "Free-soil" settlers established a rival government, and soon Kansas spiraled into civil war. Hundreds of people died in the fighting that ensued, known as " Bleeding Kansas."

A decade later, the civil war in Kansas over the expansion of slavery was followed by a national civil war over the same issue. As Thomas Jefferson had predicted, it was the question of slavery in the West-a place that seemed to be the emblem of American freedom-that proved to be "the knell of the union."
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Westward expansion, the 19th-century movement of settlers into the American West, began with the Louisiana Purchase and was fueled by the Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail and a belief in "manifest destiny."

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Lewis was on an expedition that comprised the Louisiana purchase. Lewis Chose Clark to be his co-leader for the expedition. The expedition was west of the Mississippi river.

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The Trail of Tears ends in Oklahoma.

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The railroad was put down so they could get a bigger population in the west. They wanted people to come to the west so they would start a new life. Not everyone traveled in a wagon a lot of people traveled on a railroad. A rail road is just what a train traveled on.

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The Organ trail was a big hit right in the middle of Missouri. a lot of pioneers dared to hike some where forest to leave.

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The Pony Express was a fast way to deliver mail but it was a financial flop. There was a weight limit and riders carried mail in special bags. One rider went 380 miles in only two days! Riders didn't have the deadliest job. (I don't want to know what the deadliest job is!) By Ethan M.

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The great plains is the broad expanse of flat land most of it covered in prairie.  

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The great plains is the broad expanse of flat land most of it covered in prairie.  

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A Gold rush is a movement of people to a new goldmine. This particular gold rush was in the year of 1848 and lasted a year. This gold rush was in California.

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Bull Run was the battle between Virginia and the U.s. It took place on July 21, 1861. It was during the Civil War.

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many animals were new to Luce and Clark like the grizzly bear and the prairie dog

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Pioneers are people who find and settle on a new country or area first.

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The discovery of gold in 1848 was a massive wave of western migration. The prospectors who sought their fortunes became known collectively as the forty-niners.

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Wagons are the transprtation in the past when they went west. 

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Wagons are the transprtation in the past when they went west. 

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Organ trail was a big hit right in the middle

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Organ trail was a big hit right in the middle

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The Mexican american war was from April 25, 1846 to February 2, 1848.

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The Oregon Trail was a major route that people took to travel to the western side of North America

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A railroad is a track or set of steel rails on which passengers ride. They used railroads to transport items and people. Railroads began to get used around the 1930s.

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The pony express was a mailing deliver service newspapers and mail.

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The pony express was a mailing deliver service newspapers and mail.

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it is a horse driven vertical used back

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Sacagawea was born on circa 1788 and died on November 1804.Sacagawea was an explorer.

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The ponty express in a mail delvering servise. 

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The ponty express in a mail delvering servise. 

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Over 20,000 Cherokees were forced to march westward along the Trail of tears. About a quarter of them died on the trail during the westward expansion.

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The Louisiana purchase gave us and all of America clean water to drink.It also let us take control of the port of the city of New Orleans.

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The Louisiana purchase gave us and all of America clean water to drink.It also let us take control of the port of the city of New Orleans.

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the trail of tears is a trail used by the Cherokee

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The bull run was the first major land battle between armies. The bull run took place on July 21, 1961.

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Fun fact-Sacajawea's husband spoke french!

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The Mexican American War was

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The pony express! the transcontinental telegraph dealt the pony express its deathblow!  

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The pony express! the transcontinental telegraph dealt the pony express its deathblow!  

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The great plains were Indian territory and the Westward expansion entered the great plains and there were violent wars

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Th bull run was the first major land battle. It was on July 21, 1861 when the battle took place. It took place in Manassas Junction, Virginia.

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Sacajawea means bird women.

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The pony express! buffalo bill was not a rail road worker!

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The pony express! buffalo bill was not a rail road worker!

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The First Battle of Bull Run was on July 21, 1861. 60,680 forces fought in the Bull Run altogether. The confederates won the war. By Ethan M.

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Pioneers traveled through The Oregon Trail.Pioneers do and did so much to lead better lives.The rush to Oregon started in the 1830s.

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lewis and clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806

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Bull run was during the American Civil War and took place on July 21, 1861

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Sacagawea was invited to the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804. She helped achieve the charttered mission by exploring

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A forty niner a long time ago was a person who left there home in search of gold. Now a forty niner is a football player

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Some people believe in fate, where your future is planned out and everything is meant to be.

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the pony express! riders dident have the most deadliest job!

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the pony express! riders dident have the most deadliest job!

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pioneers are people who settle to or are the first to settle to areas like america. 

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pioneers are people who settle to or are the first to settle to areas like america. 

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The American Frontier started with English Colonial settlements in the early 17th hundredths.

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the pony express is a mail delivery system used back then

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Lewis and Clark would never had survived their expedition without Sacajawea's help.

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Lewis and Clark would never had survived their expedition without Sacajawea's help.

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The first battle of bull run was fought on July 21 1861 in prince William country Virginia.

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The Louisiana purchase gave us and all of America clean water to drink. It also gave us control of the port of the city of New Orleans.

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The Louisiana purchase gave us and all of America clean water to drink. It also gave us control of the port of the city of New Orleans.

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a wagon is a four wheeled vehicle that can be used for atranspertation or other reasons.

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a wagon is a four wheeled vehicle that can be used for atranspertation or other reasons.

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The Trail of Tears was a relocation of Native Americans throughout South America

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The gold rush was a time when everyone wanted to mine for gold. It was mostly in California because it was also known as the California gold rush.

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the pony express! one rider completed a 380-mile run in less than 2 days

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the pony express! one rider completed a 380-mile run in less than 2 days

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GOLD RUSH The California gold rush was on 1849. They found 750,00 pounds of gold in it. James W. Marshall was the person who found the gold.

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GOLD RUSH The California gold rush was on 1849. They found 750,00 pounds of gold in it. James W. Marshall was the person who found the gold.

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The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native Americans in the united states. The Trail of Tears happened in 1838. More than 16,000 Native Americans where forced to travel 1,200 miles on rugged land.

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Wagons were a popular way to travel for immigrants back then.

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The  trail of tears is a painting about when the Cherokee nation was forced from there land east of the Mississippi river in 1838-1839.

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The Oregon Trail was for immagrants who wanted to go to the west.The Oregon Trail is about 2,000 miles long.

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Forty Niners are miners that left there homes in search for gold. The year was 1849.

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a frontier is a wall or border between countries.

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a frontier is a wall or border between countries.

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a frontier that can be a land or territory

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Lewis and Clark would not have survived their expedition without Sacajawea's help.

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Lewis and Clark would not have survived their expedition without Sacajawea's help.

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Sacajawea helped Lewis and Clark in their expeditions

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Wagons are horse-drawn vehicles that early settlers used mainly in North America  and sometimes other places.

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the pony express! ordinary people almost never used the pony express

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the pony express! ordinary people almost never used the pony express

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many animals were new to Lewis and Clark.the men on the journey were called the corps of discovery

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The Oregon trail was a trail for people to go on who want a new life. Also many people die from diseases and colds on the Oregon trail.\

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The Oregon trail was a trail for people to go on who want a new life. Also many people die from diseases and colds on the Oregon trail.\

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The great plains are a large space of flat land, mostly covered by prairies and steppes and grassland.

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The Gold Rush started in 1848. It all started when a carpenter found gold flakes at Sutter's Mill. Miners found 750,000 pounds of gold. In 1850, gold almost entirely disappeared. California then joined the Union, but that didn't stop them searching. All the gold ran out in 1855. By Ethan M.

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A treaty is an agreement between countries, tribes, nations, etc. The treaty of paris was signed during the westward expansion.

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The California gold rush was on 1849. They found 750,000 pounds of gold in it. James W. Marshall found the gold.

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The California gold rush was on 1849. They found 750,000 pounds of gold in it. James W. Marshall found the gold.

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the forty niners are are miners in the 1800s and 1900s and they also dig for minarls

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the forty niners are are miners in the 1800s and 1900s and they also dig for minarls

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A railroad is a set of tracks that trains travel on. It was commonly used in gold rushes.

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treaty is a ratified agreement between countries.

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treaty is a ratified agreement between countries.

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The trail of tears was a series of forced relations of native Americans in the United States from  their ancestral homelands

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the pony express! mail was carry-ed in a special bag!

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the pony express! mail was carry-ed in a special bag!

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The Trail of Tears was a relocation of Native Americans throughout The U.S.A and South America.

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The trail of tears was a series of forced relocation of native Americans in the united states.

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Lewis and Clark would never have survived their expedition without Sacajawea's help. 

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Lewis and Clark would never have survived their expedition without Sacajawea's help. 

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Railroads were the fastest type of transportation back then

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The famous Oregon trail was used by pioneers. Pioneers are people who aren't afraid of doing things. 

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The famous Oregon trail was used by pioneers. Pioneers are people who aren't afraid of doing things. 

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The Oregon trail is a 2170 mile long route for big wheeled vehicles. It was there to travel to different places. It traveled from fort independence Missouri to

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The Bull Run started on July 21,1861.It was the first major land battle.

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Pony Express was a system of mail delivery. It traveled long distances. It was used for quicker mail delivery a long time ago.

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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led a expedition to survive the land west of Missisipi.

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A wagon is a transportation vehicle used for transporting goods and other uses.