AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE 19th CENTURY
Louisiana Purchased 1803 from France
Manifest Destiny 1845
to explain the westward expansion
"American Progress" 1842 Colombia Goddess
America divided into 2 parts
Indians
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South: farmers
North: industrialization
Indians nomads had problems
due to the transcontinental
buffalos exintion
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more possibilities to become richer
people started to move to west
to start a new life
from rags to riches
which caused problems for the natives
Indians went towards Oklahoma
sources of food
transcontinental railroad caused problems to the natives
Indians pushed out of their territories
Indian Remouval Act 1830
Live on reservation
Became farmers instead of nomads
Trail of tears
Many people died
A change of lifestyle
From nomads to farmers
From tribes to start a family "civilized"
How did they acquire the territory?
wars, treaties, purchase
slavery
1806 Anti-Slavery Legislation
1805 creation of the republic party
Anti-Slavery platform reputation from being overcharged
1860 Abraham Lincoln candidated for president
Abraham Lincoln was a congressman representative for the state of Illinois in Washington D.C.
Linclon was the 16th president
served in Illinois
Consequences
Withdrawl of 11 southern states from the Union
Formed the Confederacy
Confederate states: flag, their own president,currency,army
Grey troops
Robert E.Lee
Blue troops
Ulysses S. Grant ( 18th president )
gave an important speech
Gettysburg Address Speech 1863
He signed the Emancipation Proclamation
freeing of slaves
1865 freed all the slaves with the 13th Amendment
April 1865 he was killed by Southern Sympathizer
he couldn't reconstruct the country
3 possbilities for the slaves
overcrowding in the big cities
go west but is was dangerous
stay in the south
you work for your old slave master
sharecropping: give most of what is produced to him