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In 1818 he moved to Missouri. Two years later he was involved in taking trade goods to Santa Fe New Mexico. Walker met Captain Benjamin Bonneville, Who asked him to join his trapping and trading expedition into the west. In subsequent years, Walker continued to use his voluminous knowledge of western geography as an employee of the American Fur company. He was also a guide for explorers including John C. Fremont. Walker was arrested by the Mexican authorities, because he controlled territory in…

When William C. C. Claiborne was appointed as the governor of the Territory of Orleans of Louisiana in 1804, he had quite the resume. He had previously served as a member of Tennessee’s House of Representatives, as a judge of Tennessee’s Supreme Court, and as a governor of the Mississippi Territory. Claiborne can, therefore, be referred to as a Founding Father of the states of Louisiana, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Claiborne had met and befriended the Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson,…

Philbrick, Nathanel. Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. U.S. Viking Penguin 2003. The author wrote in detail about the United States South Seas Exploring Expedition of 1838 (U.S. Ex.Ex.), an unprecedented naval operation for a nation with a navy less than half the size of Great Britain’s, and consisted of six sailing vessels and 346 men, making it one of the largest voyages of discovery in the history of Western exploration. The Ex.Ex.’s ships…

The Journey to the West Me and 33 other men dared the challenge that is the unknown west. Our leaders Lewis and Clark were gave the mission to find the source of the Missouri River and find a East West river by the one and only Thomas Jefferson. It was the year 1804 and all I knew was it wasn't going to be easy. Their was so many new undiscovered plant and animals it was hard to believe. Some of the plants we discovered were so beautiful like the blue flax which was a beautiful blue.…

The westward expansion of the United States began in 1803 when then President Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the footprint of the United States. This massive purchase of land covered 828,000 square miles at a cost of just 15 million dollars. (Louisiana Purchase) This massive purchase did not come easily for President Jefferson. Over the history of the United States many factors played into the colonization of the western part of the North American continent.…

As the New World emerged, residents from the Old made the voyage over with ideas of what was ahead. Most of the said ideas related to one overarching notion: the land and its inhabitants. Prior to the 19th century, the American response to land and its inhabitants was to maximize area, regardless of Natives; during the 19th century, the idea of increasing land remained, but the desire to make a profit also became apparent. Thus, parks within cities became seen as not only diminishing the border…

expand to the Pacific border. From the beginning, the country has craved expansion. Through agriculture and new settlements, early expansion was achieved, even if it was just to the Appalachian Mountains. Later expansion was gained through land purchases. Major reasons for this include solving the problem with balancing slave and free states and simply, just to have more land. All of this expansion, even if the early stages were not considered as such, helped to achieve the idea of manifest…

The Catalan independence movement is a political movement that emerged from Catalan nationalism that is mainly dedicated to the support of the independence of Catalonia from Spain and France. This feeling is brought by the dictatorial times of Franco who attempted to suppress the Catalan identity. To give a more geographical sense of Catalonia, it is a roughly triangular region in Spain's far northeast corner, which is separated by the Pyrenean mountains from southern France to which they share…

The Lewis and Clark expedition delivered many conflicts among the spectacular journey. Their expedition was exceedingly important, yet unpleasantly dangerous. Lewis and Clark and his crew traveled from the middle east to the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, overcoming resilient winters, coarse terrain, and combative Indian tribes. Each day brought new important information, but also unwelcoming hardships. Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory in 1803 by France, planning to enlarge…

date of the Louisiana Purchase should be a holiday? The U.S. had nearly doubled because of the territory bought by the government. Imagine all of those people living in Central and Western America. Those people should be thankful for the Louisiana Purchase. Thomas Jefferson was the president at the time who had bought the "New Land". People from the Thirteen colonies immigrated to the new territory and lead them to an adventurous journey moving to the west. In 1803, the purchase was made by…