https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4 Made with the best of intentions en-us 2016-09-16 21:11:26 UTC 2023-11-16 15:12:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecookie.png 322572 https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124912462 The California gold rush was a big deal to many people. After people found out about the gold rush they left their home to be able to go to the gold fields. ]]> 2016-09-19 21:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124912462 322572 https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124912497 Who: James k polk 
Where: Texas
When:1945
How? Texas has asked for it. 
Why: Mexico declared war. ]]> 2016-09-19 21:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124912497 332098 https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124913018 The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. ]]> 2016-09-19 21:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124913018 332098 https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124913084 The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Crops of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. It began near St Louis, made its way westward, and passed through the continental divide to reach the Pacific coast.]]> 2016-09-19 21:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124913084 319481 https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124913330 In 1830 Congress, urged on by President Andrew Jackson, passed the Indian Removal act. It gave the federal government the power to relocate any Native American to the east territory that was the west of the Mississippi River. ]]> 2016-09-19 21:44:17 UTC https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124913330 319481 https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124913383 The Oregon Trial spanned part of the future state of Kansas, ad nearly all of what are now the states of Nebraska and Wyoming.The trail was opened in 1842 and 3 years later more than 3,000 immigrants traveled from many cities on the Missouri river to Oregon country to reach western United States.]]> 2016-09-19 21:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124913383 3209251 https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124944794 The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress and triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.]]> 2016-09-20 02:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124944794 3209251 https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124944879 The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.]]> 2016-09-20 02:42:02 UTC https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/124944879 322572 https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/125230210 This was lead to the Mexican American war and then later gave america more lands such as; Texas,California, Arizona. ]]> 2016-09-20 19:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/125230210 319481 https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/125235575 2016-09-20 20:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/319481/wrjduoqqu0v4/wish/125235575