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UNIT 3: Westward Expansion (Vocabulary (Bleeding Kansas, Kansas-Nebraska,…
UNIT 3: Westward Expansion
3.Slavery
Triangle Trade:
system of trading that brought slaves to the American colonies in exchange for goods.
Africa Exports:
Slaves
America Exports:
sugar, tobacco, cotton
Europe Exports:
clothes, Rum, manufactured goods
How many slaves?
12.5 million slaves were brought to the America's
10.5 million survived the trip (The Middle Passage)
Only 400,000 thousand were sent to the American colonies
United States
An agrarian society dependent on slaves that changed with the new technologies
NORTH
believed that the federal government should decide.
States are growing rapidly because was
free of slavery
SOUTH
believed in popular sovereignty
states remained agrarian and
dependent on slavery
Missouri Compromise
Draws a line through Louisiana Territory
2.Mexico
Annexation Texas 1845
Texas became 28th state of United States in 1845
Texas declared Independence from Mexico in 1836
causes
Large parcels of cheap for business
Fertile land
Gadsden Purchase 1853
United States pays Mexico $10 million for all territory along the Gila River
United States wants this land for Railroads
Mexican-American War 1846-1848
American President
James K. Polk
Mexican President
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
Ends the Mexican-American war
Mexico gives New Mexico and California to America
America pays $ 15 million for the land
Mexico agrees to the Rio- Grande as border with Texas
1.Native Americans
Plains War
Red River War
1874-1875
Texas
Battle of the Little BigHorn
June 1876
Montana
Sand Creek Massacre
Colorado
Nov. 29,1864
Wounded Knee
south Dakota
Sioux
1890
End of plains of war
Manifest Destiny
Indian Removal Act 1830
Passed by president Jackson
CONSEQUENCES
Forever divides American's and the United States leads to war
Directly leads to the Trail of Tears
Vocabulary
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska
Missouri Compromise
: Agreement passed by congress that keeps balance of slave states and free states
Fugitive Slave Act
Indian Removal Act:
forced Native American people eat of the Mississippi to move to lands in the West
Popular Sovereignty
: idea that the states should determine legality of slavery
Manifest Destiny:
Belief that the United States would stretch from Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo:
Treaty ending the the US war with Mexico, in which Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the United States
Annex:
Incorporate a territory into an existing political country.
Social Reforms
Textile workers: mostly children aged 13-16 made 27 cents an hour
In 1899 woman made an average of $267 and man made $500 a year
Labor Unions
protect workers, provide better pay and working conditions and congress passed the 8 hours work day in 1868
