Explore major events in America's Westward expansion
Early European settlers granted themselves expansion into other peoples' lands. They pushed the frontier ever westward, displacing Native Americans, Mexicans, Canadians and others along the way. These pioneers traveled under the banner of Manifest Destiny, the idea that European Americans had a mission to expand the nation's boundaries and democratic institutions to the continent's Western shores.
San Antonio, Spanish Texas is the Spanish colonial capital.
Native American warriors led by Sitting Bull defeat General George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn
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