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Unit 3: Westward expansion (Native American (Sand creek massacre: was a…
Unit 3: Westward expansion
slavery
triangle trade: system of trading that brought slaves to the american colonies in exchange of food
12.5 slaves were brought to the Americans
10.5 survive the trip also know as the middle passage
only 4,000 thousand were sent to the American colonies
mexico
santa anna listead attacks the american army
santa anna loses baddly and the american army continues south, taking mexico city 1847
treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
officially ends the Mexican- American war
mexico gives new mexico and California to America
Annexation of texas
texas declared independe from mexico in 1836
texas and the united states agreed to make texas the 28th state in 1845
keepiing slavery legal was a must
Indian removal act 1830
passed by president Andrew jackson
series of treaties that moved the native Americans further west
tribes who did not leave, were forced to leave by the US army
consequences:!:
forever divides native Americans and the united states
leads to war
directly leads to the trails of tears
Slavery in the united states
early America was an agrarian society
new technology changed America
Missouri compromise 1820
agreements pased by congress that keep the balance of slave states, and free states
Native American
Sand creek massacre:
was a massacre in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory,
Red river war
: was a military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874 to remove the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Native American tribes from the Southern Plains and forcibly relocate them to reservations in Indian Territory.
Battle of little big horn
: The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
Wounded knee
: The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
manifest destiny
is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico
