Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 6/18/2009
Using objects, images and short biographical sketches, this website teaches students how West Point Graduates played a major role in westward expansion and the development of the nation's transportation network and advances in technology between 1802 and 1860. West Pointers helped lay the groundwork for America's economic development, intellectual growth and territorial expansion in the years before the Civil War. The Antebellum Army is part of the online exhibition, West Point in the Making of America.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
This print shows American forces attacking the fortress palace of Chapultepec on Sept. 13th, 1847...
War with Mexico, Mexican american war, map, 1800, Mexican-American War, westward expansion, West Point, engineering, railroad, US army, Army, nineteenth century, United States army, USMA, military history, Manifest Destiny, Mexican War, exploration, 19th Century, United States Military Academy