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Western North America was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Native Americans and later served as a frontier to the Spanish Empire, which began colonizing the region starting in the 16th century.
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
1820 – Daniel Boone died at a relative’s home on the Missouri frontier at age 85. On March 3, the Missouri Compromise was passed, which primarily regulated slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery for all new states north of Arkansas except for Missouri.
American frontier, in United States history, the advancing border that marked those lands that had been settled by Europeans. It is characterized by the westward movement of European settlers from their original settlements on the Atlantic coast (17th century) to the Far West (19th century).
This America West Timeline lists the critical years of the Western American territory's discovery, colonization, and settlement.
5 Μαρ 2017 · Begun over trade sanctions and restrictions, the British enticement of Native American hostility against western bound American settlers, and the American desire to continue expanding westward, the United States declared war on Britain.
15 Δεκ 2009 · In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky...
