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Unit 3: Westward Expansion (Vocabulary (Manifest Destiny (A belief that…
Unit 3: Westward Expansion
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Mexico
Mexican-American War
Mexican President Santa Anna
Angry because of the Annexation of Texas.
Mexican President Santa Anna tells President Polk that he will end peacefully, Psyche!
Santa Anna instead attacks the American Army.
Santa Anna loses badly and the American Army continues south, taking Mexico City in 1853.
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Officially ends the Mexican-American war
Mexico Gives New Mexico, Arizona, and California to America.
Gadsden Purchase
United States wanted the land for the construction of Railroads.
Land bought from Mexico by United states.
Annexation of Texas
Texas declared Independence from Mexico in 1836
Texas and the United States agreed to make Texas the 28th state in 1845
KEEPING SLAVERY WAS A MUST
Native American
Plains Wars
Red River War
Southern Plains/Oklahoma. Kiowa, Comanche
Forced women and children to reservations, and hung native warriors.
Battle of Little Big Horn
Montana. Sioux
Native warriors outflanked and destroyed Colonel troops(750).
Sand Creek Massacre
Colonel John Chivington and his troops attacked a native camp killing 150 natives, mostly women and children.
Colorado. Cheyenne
Wounded Knee
South Dakota. Sioux
350 Natives surrendered all weapons. US troops shot as they turned to leave. The end of war.
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Indian Removal Act 1830
Series of Treaties that moved the Native American further West.
Tribes who did not leave, were forced to leave by the US Army
Passed by President Andrew Jackson.
Consequences
For ever divides Native Americans with United States. 2. Leads to War. 3.Directly leads to the trail of tears.
Manifest Destiny
Values of American People
Westward expansion through Agrarian America
It was America's destiny
Slavery
Triangle Trade
A system of trading that brought slaves to the American Colonies in exchange for goods.
Africa exported Slaves
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Europe exported clothes, Rum, manufactured goods.(Goods made from sugar, cotton, tobacco.)
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America exported sugar, tobacco, cotton. (Harvested by Slaves)
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Middle Passage
10.5 million survived the trip also known as The Middle Passage
12.5 million slaves were brought to the Americas.
Slavery in the United States
Early America was an agrarian Society.
-Dependent on Slavery
New Technology changed America.
-Mostly developed in the North.
North VS South
Northern: steel, infrastructure, railroads.
South: cotton, tobacco, wheat. -Little to no industry.
Missouri Compromise: 1820
Agreement 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.
Popular Sovereignty
Idea that the States should determine legality of slavery.
Vocabulary
Manifest Destiny
A belief that the US would stretch from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean.
Indian Removal Act
A series of treaties passed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830 that made Natives move further west, away from their ancestral lands.
Missouri Compromise
A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slaves states and free states.
Bleeding Kansas
A name applied to the Kansas Territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between pro-slavery and antislavery forces.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A law, enacted in 1854, that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
Fugitive Slave Act
A law enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage.
Popular Sovereignty
Idea that the States should determine legality of slavery.
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
A treaty enacted in 1848 that ended the Mexican-American war, which gave New Mexico, Arizona, and California to America.
Annex
Social Reform
Who protects the workers?
Textile Workers
-Mostly children aged 13-16 -Made 27 cents an hour
Woman:
-In 1899 woman made and average of $267 a year.
-Average man made $500
Labor Unions
Protect workers
Provide better working conditions
-Multiple Exits, sprinkles, etc.
Provide better pay
Congress passed the 8 hour work day in 1886
