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UNIT 3: Westward Expansion (SLAVERY (MIssouri Compromise 1820 (Agreement…
UNIT 3: Westward Expansion
SLAVERY
MIssouri Compromise 1820
Agreement passed by Congress that keeps the balance of slave states and free states
Draws a line through Louisiana Territory
Triangle Trade
System of trading that brought slaves to the American Colonies in exchange for goods
Africa Exports
-Slaves
America Exports
-Sugar, Tobacco, Cotton (harvested by the slaves)
Europe Exports
-Clothes, Rum, and Manufactured Goods from Europe (goods made from Sugar, Cotton, Tobacco)
Middle Passage
12.5 million slaves brought to the America's
10.5 survived the trip meaning 2 million slaves died on the trip. Bodies would be thrown overboard.
MEXICO
Annexation of Texas
Texas and the United States agreed to make Texas the 28th state in 1845
Keeping Slavery was a MUST
Texas declared Independence from Mexico in 1836
Gadsden Purchase
$10 million
United states wants this land for railroads
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 1848
Officially ends the Mexican-American War
Mexico gives New Mexico, Arizona and California to America
Mexican-American War
Angry about the annexation of Texas, Mexico would attack American troops along the Rio Grande
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
President James K. Polk
Mexican President Santa Anna tells President Polk he will end the war peacefully
Santa Anna instead attacks the American Army
Santa Anna looses badly and the American Army continues South, taking Mexico City in 1847
NATIVE AMERICAN
Indian Removal Act
Consequences
1.Forever dived Native Americans and the US 2.Leads to WAR 3.Directly leads to the Trail of Tears
Passed by President Andrew Jackson
A law enacted in 1830 that forced Native American peoples east of the Mississippi to move to lands in the west
Tribes who did not leave, were forced to leave by the US army
Andrew Jackson
Manifest destiny
Plains Wars
Red River War 1874
Military campaign launched in the US army in 1874 to remove the Comanche Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Native American tribes from southern plains and forcibly relocate the to reservations in Indian Territory.
Battle of little Big Horn 1876
Pitted federal troops led by Lie-tenant colonies George Armstrong Custer against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Warriors.
Sand Creek Massacre 1864
Seven hundred members of the Colorado Territory militia embarked on an attack of Cheyenne and Arapaho villages
Wounded Knee 1890
soldiers demanded Native Americans give up all their weapons and rounded up 350 starving and freezing Sioux
Trail of Tears
SOCIAL REFORMS
Who protects the workers?
Textile Workers:
-Mostly children aged 13-16
-Made 27 cents an hour
Woman: - In 1899 woman made an average of $267 a year -Average man made $500
Labor Unions
Protect Workers
Provided better working conditions -Multiple Exits, sprinklers, etc.
Provided better pay
Congress passed the 8 hour work day in 1868
