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Unit 3: Westward Expansion ** (Slavery (uploaded image
Triangle Trade…
Unit 3: Westward Expansion 
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Slavery
-Missouri compromise of 1820
-slavery became more divisible when it threatened to expand westward because non-slave holding white settlers did not want to compete with slaveholders in the new territories.
-Brought to America by the British in the 16th century
-It remained an American Institution after the Revolutionary War.
Triangle Trade
How many Slaves?
:red_cross: 12.5 million slaves were brought to the America's
:red_cross: 10.5 million survived the trip also known as "the middle passage"
:red_cross: Meaning 2 million slaves died on the trip
:red_cross: bodies would be thrown overboard
:red_cross: only 400,000 thousand were sent to the American colonies.
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Mexico
mexican Cession 1848
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The Mexican Cession consisted of present-day U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, about half of New Mexico, about a quarter of Colorado, and a small section of Wyoming.
-angry about the Annexation of Texas
-mexico would attack American troops along the Rio Grande.
-American troops were send there by president Polk.
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Native America
:!: They Wanted more land, they moved west.
:!: some whites favored the displacement and dispossession of all native americans.
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Missouri Compromise 1820
-Agreements passed by congress that keeps the balance of slave states and free states.
-Draws a line through Louisiana Territory
+No slavery North of 36-30 latitude.
-Missouri added as a slave state
- Maine added as a free state.
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Social Forms
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Labor Unions
-protects workers.
-provided better working conditions (multiple exits, sprinklers, etc.)
-provided better pay.
-Congress passed the 8 hour work day in 1868
-AFL: American Federation of Labor.
-IWW: Industrial Workers of the World.