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

• American Memory - Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Immigration,+American%20Expansion
• The American West: Celebration of the Human Spirit
  http://www.americanwest.com
• Fort Leavenworth. Frontier Army Museum
  http://garrison.leavenworth.army.mil/sites/about/history.asp
• Kid Info...Pioneers and Westward Expansion
  http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Pioneers.html
• Louisiana Purchase
  http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/lewisclark2/circa1804/heritage/LouisianaPurchase/LouisianaPurchase.htm
• National Park Service (U.S. Department of the Interior) – History Settlement and Migration
  http://www.nps.gov/history/history/categrs/sltmnt.htm
• New Perspectives on the West
  http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
• Virginia’s Heritage Migration Route
  http://www.virginia.org/wildernessroad/wrRoad.asp?id=3&gclid=CMnAk8ixnJ0CFVRM5QodwDgT8A

• California National Historic Trail
  http://www.nps.gov/cali/index.htm
• Lewis and Clark Trail
  http://www.lewisandclark.org/
• Mormon Trail
  http://www.nps.gov/mopi/index.htm
• Oregon Trail
  http://www.nps.gov/oreg/index.htm
• Trails and Territories – Public Broadcasting Service
  http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/places/trails_ter/cattle.htm

• American Experience: Orphan Trains – Public Broadcasting Service
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan/
• The American West: Celebration of the Human Spirit
  http://www.americanwest.com
• Best of History (Public Broadcasting Service) (For teachers)
  http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_WestwardExpansion.shtml
• Kid Info...Pioneers and Westward Expansion
  http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Pioneers.html

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

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