Our Journey Westward has a FREE Westward Expansion Unit Study. It includes these people and more:
- Daniel Boone – pioneer, frontier boundaries after Revolutionary War, Wilderness Road, Northwest Ordinance
- Thomas Jefferson – Louisiana Purchase
- Lewis and Clark – Northwest Passage, plants and animals discovered (nature journals), geographic barriers, cartography, map of Native American tribes across N. America
- Sacagawea – Conestoga wagons, Monroe Doctrine, fur trade, Oregon Fever
- War of 1812 – America & Great Britain, disagreement over shipping & trade on seas – Embargo Act, Henry Clay, fought in America & Canada, Star Spangled Banner, Treaty of Ghent
- Jedediah Smith – Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail
- Davy Crockett – prairie schooner, Jason Lee, Independence Rock
- Trail of Tears – Indian Removal Act, Andrew Jackson, Cherokee history
- Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) – six states created from 1816-1821, wagon groupings, Pony Express
- The Battle of the Alamo
- Oklahoma Land Run
- Chisholm Trail and Cowboys – Buffalo Bill, Ben Holladay, Annie Oakley, Wild Bill Hickok
Here are additional free history resources for homeschoolers!
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