Explains how residents in the British colonies gradually changed from British subjects who wanted the rights of Englishmen to people who were prepared to go to war to establish their independence from
Explains the westward growth of the continental United States, from the purchase of Louisiana from the Emperor Napoleon and the Mexican War to the Gadsden Purchase along the Southwest border and the a
Explains why President Jefferson sent an expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark beginning in 1804 to explore the newly-purchased Louisiana Territory and describes the events of their mor
