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Unit 3: WESTWARD EXPANSION
1.-NATIVE AMERICAN
Manifest Destiny
Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson
Plains War
Name 4
Red River War
1868-1874. Texas, Oklahoma, Southern Plains. Series of battles intended to force the southern native tribes into Reservation Camps.
Battle of Little Big Horn
1876, Montana. AKA Custer's Last Stand. Gen. Custer and the 7th Calvary attacked 6,000+ Sioux Indians. All 700 men including Custer were killed.
Sand Creek Massacre
1851, Colorado Cheyenne were ambushed by US Army troops. 130+ Cheyenne were killed. Majority were woman and children.
Wounded Knee
1890, South Dakota. Sioux Indians were ambushed and massacred by Us Army troops. It would mark the end of the "Plains Wars"
Manifest Destiny
America believed it was their Destiny
Westward Expansion through Agrarian America(agriculture)
Spread American Values
INDIAN REMOVAL
3 Consequences
Forever divides Native Americans and the United States
Trail of Tears
War: Plains Indians War
3.-SLAVERY
The middle Passage
12.5 million slaves were brought to the America's.
10.5 million survived the trip.
Exports
America Exports
Sugar, Tobacco, Cotton
Europe Exports
Clothes, rum, and manufactured goods from Europe.
Africa Exports
Slaves
Northern Vs. Southern
Northern
: States are growing rapidly - steel, infrastructure and railroads
Southern
: States remained agrarian and dependent on slaves - Cotton, tobacco and wheat.
Missouri Compromise 1820
1.-Agreements passed by congress that keeps the balance of slave states and free states.
2.- Draws a line though Louisiana Territory.
-No Slavery North of 36-30 Latitude
Triangle Trade
A system of trading that brought slaves to the American Colonies in exchange of food.
Popular Sovereignty
Idea that the United States should determine legality of slavery.
2.-MEXICO
Mexican-American War
Results
Gadsden Purchase
U.S - $10 millions - Mexico, U.S wanted this lands for Railroads
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Officially ends the Mexican-American War
Causes
Angry about the annexation of Texas
Santa Anna instead attacks the America Army
Characters
Santa Anna
President Polk
Annexation of Texas
1845
Reasons why Texas was Annexed
Texas declared independence from Mexico in 1836
Texas and the United States agreed to make Texas the 28th State in 1845
Texas demanded that slavery be kept legal
4.-VOCABULARY
Fugitive Slave Act
A law, enacted as part of the compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage.
Kansas Nebraska Act
A law, enacted in 1854, that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
Bleeding Kansas
A name applied to Kansas territory in the years before Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between pro-slavery and antislavery forces.
Missouri Compromise
A series of agreements passed by congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states.
Indian Removal Act
A law, enacted in 1830, that forced Native American peoples East of the Mississippi to move to lands in the West.
Popular Sovereignty
A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue.
Manifest Destiny
The 19th century belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican Territory.
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
The 1848 treaty ending the U.S war with Mexico, in which Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the United States.
Annex
Incorporate a territory into an existing political country.
5.- LABOR
Labors unions
-Protect workers.
-Provided better working conditions
-Provided better pay -Congress pass the 8 hours work day in 1868
Who protect the workers
Textile workers.
Mostly children age 13-16.
Made 27 cents an hour
Woman
In 1899 woman made an average of $267 a year. Average man made $500.
