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Unit 3: Westward Expansion (1. Native Americans (Manifest Destiny…
Unit 3: Westward Expansion
1. Native Americans
Manifest Destiny
Westward Expansion through Agaraian American (agriculture)
Americans Destiny
spread American Values
Consequences
leads to war
directly leads to the Trail of Tears
forever divides Native Americans and United States
3 Components
tribes who did not leave were forced
to leave by the US Army Indian Removal Act
series of Treaties that moved the
Native Americans further west
passed by President Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Trail of Tears
Manifest Destiny
Natives Fight Back
The Plains Wars
Battle of Little Big Horn
Red River War
Sand Creek Massacre
3. Slavery
brought to America by the British in the 16th century
it remained an American institution after the Revolutionary War
Triangle Trade: a system of trading that brought slaves to the American colonies in exchange for goods
Africa Exports: Slaves
American Exports: sugar, tobacco, cotton (harvested by the slaves from Africa)
Europe Exports: clothes, rum and manufacture goods from Europe (goods made from sugar, cotton and tobacco from Americans
How many slaves? 12.5 million slaves were brought to the America's
10.5 million survived the tripe also known as 'The Middle Passage"
meaning 2 million slaves died on the trip
bodies would be thrown overboard
only 400,000 thousand were sent to the American colonies
early America was an Agrarian Society: dependent on Agriculture and dependent on slaves
new technology changed America
railroads, steel, oil ect.
mostly developed in the North
North vs. South
Northern States are growing rapidly (steel, infrastructure, railroads)
Southern States remained agrarian and dependent on slaves (cotton, tobacco, wheat (little to no industry))
Missouri Compromise: 1820
agreements passed by congress that keep the balance of slave states and free states
draws a line through Louisiana Territory
no slavery North of 36-30 Latitude
Missouri added as slave state
Maine added as free state
2. Mexico
Annexation of Texas
Texas and the United States agreed
to make Texas the 28th state in 1845
keeping slavery legal was a must
Texas declared independence from Mexico in 1836
Mexican- American War
What is it?
1846- 1848
angry about the Annexation of Texas, Mexico would attack American troops a
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 1848
Mexico gives New Mexico and California to America
Gadsden Purchase 1853
America offers to pay Mexico $10 million for all territory along the Gila River
Officially ends the Mexican-American war
Presidents
United States President James K. Polk
Mexican President Santa Anna
Mexican President Santa Anna tells President Polk he will end the war peacefully
Psyche!
Santa Anna instead attacks the American Army
Vocabulary
Missouri Compromise- a series of agreements passed by congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slaves states and free states
Bleeding Kansas- a name applied to the Kansas Territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battle ground between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces.
Indian Removal Act- a law enacted in 1830, that forced Native American peoples East of the Mississippi to move to lands in the West
Manifest Destiny- the 19th century belief that the United States would inevitably expand Westward to the pacific ocean and into Mexican terriroty
3 characteristics
Indian Removal Act of 1830
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