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The Lewis and Clark expedition was to explore the country that was bought in the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis and Clark made friends with the Indians and without them this couldn't have happened.

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Zebulon Pike sees the Rocky Mountains 1806

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Zebulon Pike sees the Rocky Mountains 1806

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Effect: The effect is that Zebulon Pike was exploring then he sees the Rocky Mountains and then he names a peak after him called Pikes Peak

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The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7, 1811, in Battle Ground, Indiana, between American forces led by then Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Native American forces.

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The Missouri Compromise was United States federal legislation that balanced desires of northern states to prevent expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it.

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The Erie Canal. The Erie Canal opened on October 26, 1825, providing overland water transportation between the Hudson River on the east and Lake Erie at the western end.

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Peter Cooper designs first locomotive 1830

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Peter Cooper designs first locomotive 1830

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Tom Thumb was the first American-built steam locomotive to operate on a common-carrier railroad. It was designed and constructed by Peter Cooper in 1829 to convince owners of the newly formed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. He wanted the land that they were on so they made them move to the Oklahoma territory. Some Indians went peace and others revolted.

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Effect: The Texans were outnumbered and the Mexican Garrison defeated them. People who were fighting in the battle and one person said "Remember the Alamo."

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Effect: The Americans won the war with only sustaining 13,000 casualties. And Mexico was left with only half of its stuff it was lost in war.

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Young, and 148 Mormons, crossed into the Great Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. For the next two decades, wagon trains bearing thousands of Mormon immigrants followed Young's westward trail.

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Effect: All of the people that heard that there was gold in CA left their homes in search to find gold. Many people died because they didn't have enough food or supplies.

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Harriet and Dred Scott filed individual lawsuits for their freedom in Missouri state court in St. Louis on the grounds that their residence. In a free state and a free territory had freed them from the bonds of slavery.

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Effect: Lincoln won by a landslide because people liked how he was going to try this country. He though that slavery was wrong and didn't want to get rid of it at the moment.

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Effect: The shots that were fired a Fort Sumter were fired by the Confederacy. President Lincoln said that is illegal so then they started firing back and there is the start of the Civil War.

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Inspired by small victory, Lincoln frees all slaves in the rebelling States. Has little immediate effect on slavery. Gives the Union a moral purpose for victory. Makes foreign nations unlikely to aid the South.

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Lee invaded Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863. Over 3 days in July Union forces defeated Confederate forces. Major turning point in the war.

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Confederate capital of Richmond, VA falls to Union force. On April 1865 Gen. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia. Gen. Grant accepts his surrender on April 9th

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The 15th amendment allowed all American men to vote but still not women. The 15th amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870.

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Despite Custer's desperate attempts to regroup his men, they were quickly overwhelmed. Custer and some 200 men in his battalion were attacked by as many as 3,000 Native Americans; within an hour, Custer and all of his soldiers were dead.