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Unit 3 : Westward Expansion (Slavery in the United States (Early America…
Unit 3 : Westward Expansion
Annexation of Texas
1836
Texas declared independence from Mexico .
1845
Texas and United States make Texas the 28th state text.
Slavery
Triangle Trade
Meaning: System of trading that brought slaves to the American Colonies in exchange for goods.
Continents related ( Exports )
North America
Sugar, Tobacco & Cotton.
Europe
Clothes, Rum & Manufactured goods from Europe.
Africa
Salves
12.5 million slaves were brought to the Americas.
10.5 million survived the trips. Known as
"The middle Passage."
400, 000 thousands slaves were sended to the American colonies.
Mexican American War (1846-1848)
Mexico attacks American troops along the Rio Grande.
American troops were send it by president Polk.
Presidents
James K. Polk
Santa Anna
Indian Removal Act 1830
1812
Hero of war who fought with Indians.
Native Americans were forced to move to the further west.
Were passed by President Andrew Jackson.
Tribes who did not leave, were forced to leave by U.S army.
President
Andrew Jackson
Consequences
Forever divides.
Leads to war.
Leads the Trail of tears.
Manifest Destiny
Meaning: Belief United States would stretch from Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Three Themes
values of America people.
Westward expansion through Agrarian America.
Was America's Destiny.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
The Mexican-American war ended.
Mexico gives New Mexico & California to America.
Gadsden Purchase 1853
10 million was offered by the United States for territory along the Gila River to Mexico.
They wanted the land for Railroads.
Slavery in the United States
North
Steel, guns & railroads
States growing rapidly
South
cotton, tobacco & wheat
States remained agrarian and dependent on slaves.
Missouri Compromise 1820
Agreements:
Passed by congress that keeps the balance of slave states and free states.
Missouri
:
Slave state.
Maine:
free state.
Statehood
Popular Sovereignty:
Gave states the right to determine legality of
Slavery
Early America was an:
Agrarian Society.
Dependent
on
Agriculture
Dependent
on
slaves
.
New Technology changed America.
Railroads, steel mills, machines, oil, etc.
Most develop in the North.
Unit 3
Native Americans
Treaty G.H
Mexico
