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People
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John C. Frémont
The Pathfinder of the West whose maps drew settlers into California and Oregon
John Wesley Powell
The one-armed Civil War veteran who ran the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
Neil Armstrong
The first human to set foot on the moon
Sacagawea
Shoshone guide and interpreter whose knowledge made the Corps of Discovery possible
Sally Ride
The first American woman in space
Zebulon Pike
The Army officer who explored the southern Louisiana Purchase and never climbed Pikes Peak
Places
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Grand Canyon National Park
The mile-deep Colorado River gorge protected from dam projects in 1968
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded 1607 on the Virginia tidewater
Mississippi River
The continent's central artery — highway, boundary, and the most mythologized river in American history
Roanoke Colony
The "Lost Colony" that vanished from the Outer Banks before relief ships returned
Rocky Mountains
The 3,000-mile cordillera that defined the western frontier and the Continental Divide
St. Augustine
The Spanish presidio in Florida — oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States
St. Louis
Gateway to the West and crossroads of American expansion
Eras
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Colonial America
The 168 years of English settlement that built the society the Revolution would transform, 1607–1775
Events
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French and Indian War
The North American theater of a world war that made the American Revolution inevitable, 1754–1763
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The 1804–1806 Corps of Discovery that mapped the American West to the Pacific
Louisiana Purchase
The 1803 land acquisition that doubled the size of the United States
Oregon Trail
The 2,000-mile overland route that carried 400,000 settlers to the American West, 1840–1869
The Space Shuttle
The reusable spacecraft that defined American spaceflight for three decades
Concepts
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NASA
The agency that carried America into space and to the moon
The Frontier Thesis
The argument that the American frontier made America — and what happened when it closed
U.S.–Spain Relations
From the empire that colonized half the continent to the war that ended its American reach
Westward Expansion
The century-long process by which the United States spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific
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