The exploration of the West in
the 18-19th century
Prepared by
BogdanovaTanya (A-201) and
Milyaev Stas( A-202)
The West
• The West includes 13 states :Arizona,
Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming,
Washington, Oregon, California,
Alaska, Hawaii
• It occupies about 3 millions sq km
States
“Up to our own day American history has
been in a large degree the history of the
colonization of the Great West.”
F. J. Turner
• Notion “the West”:
1) Line of waterfallsAppalachian
2) AppalachianMississippi River
3) Mississippi RiverRocky Mountains
4) Rocky Mountains- The
Pacific Ocean
“Go to the West, youth, and grow
with this country”
John Saul
Date
Events
1763
Proclamation Line was established
1783
The Paris Peace Treaty
1803
Louisiana Purchase
18041806
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Date
1818
1846
18461848
1845
18481849
1867
Events
Anglo-American Convention
The Oregon Treaty
Mexican-American War
1898
Annexation of Hawaii
Manifest Destiny
The California Gold Rush
Annexation of Alaska
The first American West
1) Territories of Kentucky
and Ohio River
1654-first steps in
Kentucky
1792-Kentucky as a state
of the U.S.
1729-first steps in Ohio
1803 Ohio as a state of
the U.S.
The Parish Peace Treaty of 1783
Louisiana Purchase 1803
Arkansas
Missouri
Iowa
Oklahoma
Kansas,
Nebraska,
parts of Minnesota that were west
of the Mississippi River,
most of North Dakota
nearly all of South Dakota,
northeastern New Mexico,
the portions of Montana
Wyoming, and Colorado
and Louisiana west of the
Mississippi River
Lewis and Clark expedition
• Quest- explore the territory and find a water
route across the country.
• The expedition started on May 14,1804 in St.
Louis
• Was headed by Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark and assisted by Sacagawea.
• It ended on September 23,1806
• results- gained the loyalty and friendship of
tribes and mapped the new territory
Annexation of the Oregon Country
• 1818-Anglo-American
Convention :
-Boundary along 49th
parallel between the
USA and British North
America
-This countries can both
settle in the Oregon
country
• 1846- The Oregon
Treaty:
-This Treaty established
the 49th parallel as the
boundary between the
USA and British North
America to the Pacific
Ocean.
Mexican-American War
• The war began on
April 25, 1846 in the
wake of the 1845 U.S.
annexation of Texas,
which Mexico
considered part of its
territory in spite of the
1836 Texas
Revolution.
Mexican-American War
• The war ended on
February 2, 1848
• The United States gave
Texas, California,
Nevada, Utah, parts of
Colorado, Arizona, New
Mexico and Wyoming.
Manifest destiny
• is a term that was used in the 19th century to
designate the belief that the United States
was destined to expand across the North
American continent, from the Atlantic
seaboard to the Pacific Ocean
• First appeared in 1839 and was used in 1845.
The California Gold Rush 1848-1858
• Is a period in American
history marked by mass
hysteria concerning a
gold discovery in
Northern California
• started at near Sutter's
Mill on the 24th of
January, 1848
Last states
• On March 30, 1867 The
US Senate purchased
Alaska from the Russian
Empire.
• In 1898 the United
States annexed Hawaii
and gave it status
“territory”
Bibliography
• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/map_hp.htm
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• http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icu
html/fawsp/fawsp.html
• http://americanhistory.about.com/od/america
nwest/American_West.htm
• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/