Here are our recommended Web sites and other resources for your school assignment on the westward expansion.

• The American West: Celebration of the Human Spirit
  http://www.americanwest.com
• Kid Info...Pioneers and Westward Expansion
  http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Pioneers.html
• New Perspectives on the West
  http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/

• EbscoHost
• MasterFILE Premier
• Student Research Center
• eLibrary
• Gale Group
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Student Resource Center Gold
• Grolier Online
• SIRS

Sample search terms:
• Alamo
• Gadsden Purchase
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Manifest Destiny
• Northwest Ordinance and Act of 1787
• Texas and Annexation
• United States -- Territorial Expansion

• Alamo
• Frontier and Pioneer Life
• Louisiana Purchase
• Oregon Trail
• Trail of Tears
• Territorial Expansion United States
• West (U.S.)--History
• Frontier and Pioneer Life