Unit 3 ⭐Westward Expansion

Mexico

Native Americans

Slavery

Indian Removal Act of 1830

Plain Wars

Manifest Destiny

Mexican American War

Triangle Trade

Annexation of Texas

Red River

Battle of Little Big Horn

Sand Creek Massacre

Wounded Knee

Trail of Tears

Manifest Destiny

Andrew Jackson

Vocabulary

Westward expansion through Agrarian America

Passed by President Andrew Jackson, Hero of War of 1812

1864, Colorado, Cheyenne were ambushed by US Army troops. 130+ Cheyenne were killed. Majority were woman and children.

1668- 1874, Texas, Oklahoma, Southern Plains. Series of battles intended to force the southern native tribes into Reservation Camps.

!876, Montana. AKA Custer´s Last Stand. Gen. Custer and the 7th Calvary attacked 6,000 + Sioux Indians. All 700 men including Custer were killed.

1890, South Dakota. Sioux Indians were ambushed and massacred by US Army troops. It would mark the end of the ¨Plain Wars¨

Bleeding Kansas

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Missouri Compromise

Fugitive Slave Act

Indian Removal Act

Popular Sovereignty

Manifest Destiny

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Annexation of Texas

Annex incorporate a territory into an existing political country

To express their belief that the United States it was to expand yo the Pacific Ocean and into Mexico Territory

Move the Native Americans from their lands to areas farther west

When a territory's population reached about 60,000 the people of the territory could petition the Union for Admission; draft a star to become part of the United States

The bloody shirt that pro slavery Kansas settles waved in summoning attacks on free soldiers

Divide the area into two territories Nebraska in the north and Kansas in the south

The right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery

Treaty ending the U.S. war with Mexico, in which Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the United States

I was America´s destiny

Values of America people

Fugitives were not entitled to a trial by jury

Africa.- exports slaves to America

Missouri Compromise-

America.- exports sugar, tobacco, cotton to Europe

Europe.- exports clothes, rum, and manufactured goods to Africa

Agreements passed by Congress that keeps the balance of slave states and free states.

Series of Treaties that moved the Native American further west.

Tribes who did not leave, were forced to leave by the US Army.

Texas declared independence from Mexico in 1836. Texas and the United States agreed to make Texas the 28th state in 1845.

Angry about the Annexation of Texas, Mexico would attack American troops along the Rio Grande. American troops were sent there by President Polk.

Treaty of Hidalgo

Officially ends the Mexican American War. Mexico gives New Mexico and California to America.

Labor Unions

Protected Workers, Provided better working conditions , Multiple exits, sprinkles, etc. Provided better pay, Congress passed the 8 hour work day in 1868.