the westward expansion happened slowly at first - John C. Frémont and his expedition party were commissioned to map and survey a reliable overland route to the Oregon Territory
The U.S. remained a “mostly agricultural” economy until the early 20th century - SPOILER ALERT - THIS episode dramatizes the story of Cyrus McCormick’s mechanical reaper and its impact of agricultural productivity
Samuel Slater was an early English-American industrialist known as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution”, a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson, and the “Father of the American Factory System” (thank you wikipedia via Google)
… the U.S. doubled its area/size with the Louisiana Purchase - but didn’t really know what was out there - SO the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Corps of Discovery Expedition) lasted from May 14, 1804, to September 23, 1806
dramatization of U.S. history very pro United States of America The American Trail spans the time from the ratification of the Constitution to the mid 1950’s
