Westward Expansion- Mr. Marr

Online Subscription Databases:
ABC-CLIO American History
SIRS Government Reporter
WebFeet
WorldBook Encyclopedia Online

Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
http://www.eliwhitney.org/museum/eli-whitney/cotton-gin

Samuel Slater from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/slater_hi.html

Francis Cabot Lowell from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/lowell_hi.html

Elias Howe from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul09.html

Henry Clay’s American System from the U.S. Senate
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_ClayAmericanSystem.htm
American Currency and Early Banking
http://www.frbsf.org/currency/expansion/index.html

Trailblazers including Fur Traders, Astorians and more
http://www.trailblazers101.com/ship1.htm

Mountain men and Fur trappers
http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/hubs/mountain_men_trapers_fur_traders/mountain_men_trapers_fur_traders.html

Mountain Men Pathfinders to the West with Maps
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Mtmen/home.html

Davy Crockett from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/peopleevents/p_crockett.html

Daniel Boone from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/daniel_boone/page1.asp?secid=31

New Perspectives on the West: PBS collection of biographies, maps and events
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/index.htm

The Pony Express from the National Park System
http://www.nps.gov/poex/

The Oregon Trail from Idaho State University
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Allabout.html

Historic Sites along the Oregon Trail
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Sites.html

Trail of Tears from the National Park Service
Information and interactive map
http://www.nps.gov/trte/historyculture/stories.htm
Library of Congress, Indian Land Cessions
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwss-ilc.html

Indian Removal Act from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html

Indian Territory 1834 from the Oklahoma Historical Society
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/I/IN018.html

Manifest Destiny from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/md_introduction.html

Robert Fulton, Steam Boat
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/fulton_hi.html

Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor, Partnership with National Park Service
http://www.eriecanalway.org/learn_history-culture.htm

Erie Canal History from the NY State Canal
http://www.nyscanals.gov/cculture/history/index.html

Telegraph, Samuel Morse from the Smithsonian Institute
http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/r819.htm

Steam Locomotives, Peter Cooper from the National Inventors Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/258.html