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unit 3: westward expansion (slavery (Triangle Trade (System of trading…
unit 3: westward expansion
Mexico
Annexation Texas
year
what about slavery?
reasons why texas was
Texas revolution
USA wanted the land
1845
Texas demanded that slavery be kept legal
Mexican-American War
Causes
Mexico is angry about Annexation of Texas
America waned southwest
1846-1848
Presidents
President American Jason K. Polk
Mexican President Santa Anna
Results
Santa Anna was some support battle in North America
America captures Mexico City 1847
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: 1848
Officially ends the Mexican-American War
The Plains War
Red River
Little Big Horn
Wounded knee
Crazy Horse
Lakota warrior
fought against the united states
most famous Native American
killed while surrendering to us Army
Chief sitting bull
Lakota chief
leader, warrior, medicine man
killed by Native American police in 1890
Gen George Custer
civil war hero
most famous for the Battle of Big Horn
led 700 men against 5,000 + Lakota
all 700 man, including Custer and his two younger brother were killed
slavery
Brought to America by the British in the 16th century
it remained an American institution after the revolutionary war
Triangle Trade
System of trading that bright slaves to the America Colonies in exchange for goods
Africa sports: slaves to America
America sports: sugar, tobacco, cotton to Europe
Europe exports: clothes, rum, and manufactures goods to Africa
12.5 million slaves were brought to the America's
10.5 million survived the trip also know as "the middle passage"
meaning 2 million slaves died on trip
bodies would be thrown died on the trip
only 400,000 thousand were sent to the American Colonies
Native American
Manifert Destiny
3 characteristic
Indian removal act 1830
3 consequences
Manifest Destiny
Trail of tears
Andrew Jackson
Plain Wars
Name 4
North vs South
southern states remained agrarian and dependent on slaves
-cotton, tobacco, wheat
-little to no industry
northern states are growing rapidly
steel, guns, rollroads
North vs. South
northen states are growing rapidly
steel, guns, railroads
southern states remained and depend on slaves
cotton, tobacco, wheat
little to no industry
Westward Expansion: Statehood
american's raced west to turn territories into states
Westward expansion
popular sovereignty: gave states right to determine legality of slavery
