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(Native American ((Manifest Destiny - Belief that the United States would…

- - - - Westward expansion through Agrarian America
      - Values of American people
      - Values of American people
      - Indian Removal Act 1830
        
        Series of Treaties that moved the Native Americans further West
        
        Tribes who did not leave, were forced to leave by the US Army
        
        Passed by President Andrew Jackson
        
        Hero of War of 1812 who
        fought WITH Indians
        
        The Natives Fight back
        
        The Plains Wars
        
        Sand Creek Massacre
        
        Red River War
        
        Battle of Little Big Horn
- - - - 10.5 Million survived the trip also known as ‘The Middle Passage’
      - Only 400,000 thousand were sent to the American Colonies
      - 12.5 Million slaves were brought to the America’s
      - Slavery in the United States
        
        Early America was an Agrarian Society;
        Dependent on Slaves
        
        New Technology changed America;
        Mostly developed in the North
      - Labor Unions
        
        Provided better working conditions
        
        Multiple Exits, sprinklers, etc.
        
        Provided better pay
        
        Protect Workers
        
        Congress passed the 8 hour work day in 1868
      - Who Should Decide?
        
        Popular Sovereignty: Idea that the States should determine legality of slavery
      - 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
- - - - Angry about the Annexation of Texas, Mexico would attack American troops along the Rio Grande
    - - -Santa Anna instead attacks the American Army
      - Santa Anna loses badly and the American Army continues South, taking Mexico City in 1847
      - -Mexican President Santa Anna tells President Polk he will end the war peacefully
    - - Officially ends the Mexican-American War
      - Mexico gives New Mexico, Arizona and California to America
    - - cost 10 million
      - United States wants this land for Railroads