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Episodes tagged "Westward Expansion": 1 through 5 of 5

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  1. A Student Eulogizes Thomas Jefferson
    date October 4, 1826map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, Westward Expansion, Louisiana Purchase

    Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the United States and the third elected President, passed away on July 4, 1826. Jefferson served two terms as President of the United States from 1801-1809. He will always be remembered as the principal author to the Declaration of Independence. On October 26, 1826, at the Columbian College in Washington D.C., Jefferson’s eulogy was delivered by a...

  2. Following the Westward Expansion through a Kansas Trip in 1866
    date September 5, 1866map Unorganized, Kansastags Westward Expansion, Railroad, Pacific Railway, Union Pacific, Agriculture

    D. F. Drinkwater advertised that “‘Kansas’ bottom lands are exceedingly rich, and bring large crops of corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, sugar cane and vegetables, as well as hemp and cotton. The successful raising of the latter is no longer an experiment here.” But he added one more fact to make his call pertinent. It became easy and comfortable to come to Kansas by train. Who could claim better...

  3. Tribulations after the Trail
    date August 14, 1857map CLARK, Washingtontags Westward Expansion, Oregon Trail

    Historian Frederick Turner once described the frontier as "the meeting point between savagery and civilization." On the journey out west, wagons were pillaged by Native Americans who stole animals and destroyed necessities, seeking revenge for the intrusion up their land. Westward travelers saw their destinations as safe havens; however, the troubles did not end when their journey did. As each party...

  4. General Sullivan’s Campaign Against Western Indians
    date June, 1790 to August, 1790map Ontario, New Yorktags Indian Removal, Westward Expansion, General John Sullivan, Iroquois Indians

    In the late months of 1778 General John Sullivan of Washington’s army began his long excursion up the eastern coast with one simple goal in mind: to conquer as much land as possible.   Sullivan’s expedition, known as “the Campaign against Western Indians,” was one of the first campaigns in a long serious of Indian Removal actions  culminating in the  official policy of President Andrew...

  5. Go West, Young Man! (Whether You Want To Or Not)
    date September 5, 1844 to April 8, 1848map ORANGE, North Carolinatags Westward Expansion, Slavery, Migration, slavery, runaway

    One of the more striking aspects of the Cameron plantation letters is the account they offer of the exportation of slave life from the areas of initial settlement on the Atlantic seaboard beyond the Appalachian mountains into the old Southwest and the Mississippi. Ira Berlin's Many Thousands Gone and Generations Of Captivity trace this development to the period of the American Revolution, when British...