Beyond Lewis and Clark - Timeline 1861-1865
The Army Explores The West
Civil War (1861-1865)
Would new western states be slave or free? That fundamental question fueled the passions that brought the North and South to war in 1861.
The war escalated production and showed the power of America's industrial machine. This required resources, among them land, ore, cattle, and wheat. The government ordered massive surveys of the West to identify and catalog its resources.
Beyond Lewis and Clark is an online exhibit developed by the Kansas Museum of History. It is the result of a partnership between the Kansas Historical Society, the Virginia and Washington State historical societies, the U. S. Army's Frontier Army Museum at Leavenworth, and the U. S. Army Center of Military History.
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Timeline
- 1800 - Jefferson elected President
- 1804-1806 - Lewis and Clark expedition
- 1803 - Louisiana Purchase
- 1806-1807 - Pike expedition
- 1812 - War of 1812
- 1819-1820 - Long expedition
- 1838 - Corps of Topographic Engineers created
- 1842-1846 - Frémont expeditions
- 1846-1848 - Mexican War
- 1846 - Emory expedition
- 1848-1855 - U.S.-Mexican Boundary Survey
- 1853-1854 - Pacific Railroad Survey
- 1861-1865 - Civil War
- 1867 - King expedition
- 1871-1879 - Wheeler expedition
- 1874 - Custer expedition
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