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Unit 3: Westward Expansion (Native Americans ((Plains Wars (Red River…

- - - - a system that brought slaves to America in exchange for goods
        
        America to Europe: sugar, tobacco, cotton
        Europe to Africa: clothes, rum, and Manufacture goods
        Africa to America: Slaves #
    - - Agreement passed by congress that keeps the balance of slaves states and free states.
      - Draws a line through the Louisiana Territory to divide Free states and salve states
    - - Northern sates are growing rapidly(Steel, Railroads , Machines, Oil etc)
      - Southern States remained agrarian and dependent on slaves (cotton, tobacco, wheat. Little to no industry)
    - - Women:
        
        made an average of $267 while men made $500
      - Textile workers:
        -mostly children from 13- 16 years old
        -27 cents per hour for 14-15 hours
      - Labor union : -Protected workers
        -give better working conditions ( sprinklers, exits etc.)
        -better pay
        -The 8-hour work day was passed by Congress in 1868
- - - - Red River War : War in 1868 in Oklahoma between the Kiowa and the Comanche against the US troops. The US troops hung warios and fkilled woman and children
      - Battle of Little Big Horn : first battle ever win by the Indians were the Sioux surprised the US troops. , In Montana , 1876.
      - Sand Creek Massacre : War of 1864 in Colorado between the Cheyenne and the American troops were over 150 inhabitants were killed
      - Wounded Knee : On 1890, in South Dakota, the Sioux were massacred when the US troops came into their resevations to disarmed them when a gunshot was heard( wasn't clear who did it) and the US started to kill each of the people in there
  - - - Causes
        
        Manifest Destiny : The belief that it wast the US destiny to expand westward
        
        resources the US moved westward because they were agrarian
      - Consecuences
        
        For ever divides Native Americans and the United States
        
        Leads to war #
        
        The trail of tears
      - The Indian Removal Act passed by President Andrew Jackson were series of treaties that force the native Americans to leave their lands and move westward
  - - - Manifest Destiny
      - President Andrew Jackson
      - Trail of tears
- - - - Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo: officially ends the Mexican Americann War
      - California and New mexico beccome part of the US
    - - Annexation of Texas
      - Mexico ask President Polk for a peacefully war end, but then attacks.
      - President Santa Anna(Mexico) Attacks american troops along the Rio Grande