Unit 3: Westward Expansion
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Slavery
- Mexico
Annexation of Texas
Texas declared independence from mexico in 1836
1845
Mexican American War
Texas and the US agreed to make the 28th state in 1845
Vocabulary
Bleeding Kansas
Annexation
Texas only wanted to join America if they kept slavery Legal
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Act
Indian Removal Act
Popular Sovereignty
Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalogo
Native Americans
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Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo
Santa Anna
James Knox Polk
Officially ends the mexican-American war, Mexico gives New mexico, Arizona and California to America
The united states pays mexico $10 million for all the territory along the Gila river
Brought to America by British in the 16th century
Remained as an American institution
A triangle trade was created, brought slaves to the American Colonies in exchange for goods.
How many slaves?
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10.5 Million survived the trip known as
12.5 million were brought to the Americas
The Middle Passage
2 million slaves died on the trip
Only 400,000 thousand were sent to The American Colonies
Slavery In the United States
Early America was an Agrarian Society which they were dependent on slaves.
North
South
Southern States remained agrarian and dependent on slaves
Northern States were growing rapidly.
Missouri Compromise:1820
Agreements passes by congress that keeps the balance of slaves states and free states
Trail of Tears
Social Reforms
Protected Textile Workers
Made 27 cents an hour
Mostly children aged 13-16
Women:
In 1899 woman made an average of 267 a year
Andrew Carnegie: CEO of US Steel - made $23 million in 1899 with no income tax
An average man made $500
Labor Unions
Provided better working Conditions
Protected workers
Provided Better PAy
Congress passed the 8 hour work day in 1868
Manifest Destiny
Indian Removal Act
Belief that the united states would stretch from Atlantic ocean to the pacific.
Series of Treaties that moved the Native Americans further free
Tribes the refused to leave were forced by the US Army.
Passed by Andrew Jackson
Consequences
Leads to war
Forever divides Native American's and United States
Directly leads to the Trail of Tears
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Battle of little Big Horn
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Lakota warrior
Gen. George Custer
Fought against the United States, Most famous Native American, Killed while surrendering to the US Army
Chief Sitting Bull
Lakota Chief, Leader,warrior, medicine man, Killed by Native American Police in 1890
Civil war hero, Most famous for the battle of big horn
Led 200 men against 5,000 Lakota warriors
Crazy Horse
Location: Crow Agency, Montana
Tribe: Siox and Cheyenne
June 1876
Warriors with raised spears and rifles out flanked and crushed cluster's troops within and hour, Cluster and all of the men. Indians won that war. All of the Seventh Cavalry were dead. By late 1876 Sioux were beaten. Sitting bull took refuge in Canada. Remained until 1881. Bull was forced to surrender.