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La fiebre del oro (The Gold Rush)
California became a territory in the United States when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848. That treaty ended the Mexican War. Several days before its signing, gold …
Los asentamientos y la expansión de la frontera (Homesteading and Settling the Frontier)
The Homestead Act was passed in 1862, when states that had seceded from the Union could no longer block it in congress. The act opened land in the west for all Americans, including …
Lewis y Clark y la compra de la Luisiana (Lewis and Clark and Exploring the Louisiana Purchase)
When President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from cash-strapped France in 1803, he doubled the size of the United States without really knowing what he was …
Destino Manifiesto y la guerra mexicano-estadounidense (Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War)
Manifest Destiny the name given in the 1840s to a belief that the coast-to-coast expansion of the United States was both inevitable and justified, regardless of the means. Standing …
La resistencia de los nativos americanos (Native American Resistance)
The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native …
El ferrocarril transcontinental (The Transcontinental Railroad)
People today refer to the Midwestern and prairie states as flyover country. During the Civil War, crossing those areas was the biggest obstacle in uniting the East and West Coasts …