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Unit 3: Westward Expansion (NATIVE AMERICANS (PLAINS WAR : …
Unit 3: Westward Expansion
NATIVE AMERICANS
INDIAN REMOVAL ACT -Passed by President Andrew Jackson -Hero of war of 1812 who faught with Indians -Series of Treaties that moved the Native Americans further West -Tribes who did not leave, were forced to leave by the U.S Army
Why this method? -Feared Native Americans -Whites and Natives would always fight -American States wanted the land
Consequences: 1.) Forever devides Native Americans and United States 2.) Leads to war 3.) Directly leads to Trail of Tears
PLAINS WAR : Natives fight back! Sand Creek Massacre: -Colorado in 1864 -Cheyenne -150 killed especially women and kids
Red River War: - Southern Plains in 1868 -Kiowa/ Comanche -Indians lost
Battle of Little Bighorn: on 1876 -Montana -Sioux - Indians win
Wounded Knee: on 1890 -South Dakota -Sioux -Indians win
MANIFEST DESTINY: The belief that the United States would stretch from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean
Three themes: Values of American people, Westward expansion through Agrarian America, It was America's destiny!
MEXICO
ANNEXATION OF TEXAS: Annex- Incorporate a territory into an existing political country
-Texas declared independence from Mexico in 1836 -Texas and the United States agreed to make Texas the 28th state in 1845 -Keeping slaves was a must!
MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR
Angry about the annexation of Texas, Mexico would attack American American troops along the Rio Grande
TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO
Officially ends the Mexican American war, Mexico gives New Mexico, Arizona, California to America
GADSDEN PURCHASE 1853
United States wants this land for railroads
SLAVERY
TRIANGLE TRADE: System of trading that brought slaves to the American colonies in exchange for goods
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 were sent to the American Colonies
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
Early America was an Agrarian society which depended on slaves
New technology changed America (Mostly developed in the North)
Indian Removal Act, Manifest Destiny, Plains War