Unit 3: Westward Expansion :

Mexico

Mexican American War

Gadsden purchase 1853

united states wants this land for rail roads

United States pays Mexico $ 10 million for all territory along the Gila river

Mexican American War 1846-1848

Mexico gives New Mexico and California to America

  • America pays $15 million for the land
  • Mexico agrees to the Rio Grande as border with Texas

Ends the Mexican Americans war

James k Polk (president

Antonio Lopez DE Santa Ana (Mexican president)

Causes

Large parcels of cheap for business

fertile land

Annexation of Texas

Texas declared independence from Mexico 1836

Texas became 28th states in 1845

Slavery

Bought to America by the British in the 16th century

Europe Exports: cloth, rum and manufactured

America Exports: sugar, tobacco, cotton(harvest by the slaves)

12.5 million slaves were brought to the American's 10.5 million survived the trip also know as the middle passage * Only 400.00 thousand were sent to the American colonies

textile workers: mostly children aged 13-16 made 27 cents an hour

social reforms

Labor Union

protect workers provided better working conditions: multiple exist, sprinklers, etc. provided better pay congress passed the 8 hrs.

woman: in 1899 woman made an average of $ 267 a year average man made $ 500

vocabulary

Native american

Manifest destiny

Trail of Tears

Indian removal Act 1830

Andrew Jackson

Kansas- Nebraska Act 1854

tready of guadalupe- Hidalgo

Indian removal act 1830

fugitive slave act

Missouri compromise

popular sovereignty

manifest destiny

bleeding Kansas

manifest destiny

values of american

westward expansion

3 compromices

war plains Indians war

trail of tears

the native fight black

plains war

name 4

battler of little bighorn

wounded knee

red river war

band creek massacre

1864, Colorado territory, Rio grande do soul-Brazil. tribe Cheyenne & Arapaho. 150 Cheyenne women & children were killed, they were not prepared

1868, southern plain Texas. tribes Kiowa & Comanche. Indian lost

1876, bighorn country little horn river. Montana. tribe sioux. the famous battle the Indian win

1890, Dakota. tribe Sioux. 350 killed it mark the plans end war