#Exploration

23 entries

People (6)

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

The first human to set foot on the moon

Shoshone guide and interpreter whose knowledge made the Corps of Discovery possible

The first American woman in space

The Army officer who explored the southern Louisiana Purchase and never climbed Pikes Peak

Places (7)

Grand Canyon National Park

The mile-deep Colorado River gorge protected from dam projects in 1968

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

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

The Spanish presidio in Florida — oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States

Gateway to the West and crossroads of American expansion

Eras (1)

Colonial America

The 168 years of English settlement that built the society the Revolution would transform, 1607–1775

Events (5)

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

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 (4)

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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