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West Ward Expansion
SLAVERY
Triangle trade
- System of trading that brought slaves to the American Colonies in exchange for goods
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*America Exports sugar, tobacco, cotton (harvest by slaves
- Europe Exports clothes, rum, and manufactured goods (goods made from sugar)
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- 12.5 million slaves were brought to the America's
- 10.5 million survived the trip also known as " The Middle Passage"
- Only 400,000 thousand were send to the Americans Colonies
Slavery in the United States #
- Early America was an agrarian society - dependent on slaves
- New technology changed America- mostly develop in the north
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Missouri Compromise: 1820 #
- Agreements passed by Congress that keeps the balance of slaves and free states
- Draws a line through Louisiana Territory
- No slavery North of 36-30 lattitude
- Idea that the States should determine legality of slavery
MEXICO 1846-1848
Annexation of Texas
- Mexico was angry about the Annexation of Texas, Mexico would attack American troops along the Rio Grande.
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Mexican- American War
- Mexican President Santa Anna tells President Polk he will end war peacefully.
- Santa Anna instead attacks the American Army
- Santa Anna loses badly and the American Army continues South, taking Mexico city in 1847.
Mexican Cession to U.S.A
Treaty of Guadalupe
- Officially ends the Mexican- American War
- Mexico gives New Mexico and California to America
Gadsden Purchase 1853
- United States wants this land for Railroads
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NATIVE AMERICANS
Indian Removal Act
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- Forever divides Native American and the United States
- It leads to Plains Indian War
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Plains Wars
Sand Creek Massacre
Cheyenne tribe returned to Colorado in 1864 assuming they were under protection of the U.S. They attacked them and most of them were killed including women and children.
Red River War
1868 Southern Reservations. Kiowas and Comanche. The U.S. herding the people of friendly tribes onto reservations while opening fire on others.
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Wounded Knee
1890 South Dakota. They took Sioux to a camp, soldiers demanded the Native Americans give up their weapons, a shot was fired not clear which side, soldiers opened fire. Soldiers left corpses to freeze on ground this marked the end of the wars.
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Manifest Destiny
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- Westward expansion through Agrarian American
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Social Reforms
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Woman
- In 1899 woman made an average of $267 a year
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- Provided better working conditions
- Multiple Exist, sprinkelres
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- Congress passed the 8 hour work day in 1868
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