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Westward Expansion
USI.8a-d
Gaining Territories
USI.8a
Warm-Up
You live in Philadelphia in 1830. Though you’ve
lived in the city all of your life, you dream
about the West and the frontier. Now you’ve
discovered a wonderful writer whose stories
tell about frontier life and events in American
history. You can’t wait to read his next
exciting adventure. You think that perhaps
someday you could be a frontier hero too.
Why would the frontier seem so exciting?
New Territories After 1801
• Louisiana Purchase
– Jefferson bought land
from France, which
DOUBLED the size of
the United States
– Lewis & Clark were
hired to explore the
newly purchased land,
the Oregon territory
(from the Mississippi
River to the Pacific
Ocean)
New Territories After 1801
• Florida (1819)
– Spain gave Florida to
the United States
through a treaty –
(Adams-Onis Treaty)
New Territories After 1801
• Texas (1836)
– was added to the
United States after it
became an independent
republic
New Territories After 1801
• Oregon (1846)
– This territory was
divided by the United
States AND Great
Britain so that settlers
from both countries
could settle there
New Territories After 1801
• California (1848)
– War with Mexico
resulted in
California and the
southwest
territory becoming
part of the United
States
Warm-Up
We have been studying the new western
frontier – in addition to the settlers, there is
a cultural movement going on too. Lots of new
writers and art are being introduced.
On pages 308-309, choose ONE of the
American writers and explain why you think he
is more interesting. Then, choose one of the
new styles of art and explain why you believe
they are more fascinating.
Warm-Up
You live in Ohio in 1840. A few months ago, you
and your family heard stories about a wonderful
land in the Northwest, with sparkling rivers and
fertile valleys. You all decide to pull up stakes
and head West. You travel to Independence,
Missouri, planning to join a wagon train on the
Oregon Trail. In Missouri, you’re supposed to
find hundreds of other people planning to make
the trip. What would you expect your journey
West to be like?
Why Go West?
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Reasons To Go West
1. Population was growing in the
eastern states (getting
crowded)
Reasons To Go West
2. There was LOTS of cheap,
fertile land available for the
taking
Reasons To Go West
3. Cheaper and
faster
transportation
(rivers and
canals, Erie
Canal,
steamboats)
Reasons To Go West
4. Knowledge and
access to the
overland trails
Reasons To Go West
5. Belief in
MANIFEST
DESTINY - the
idea that
expansion was
for the good of
the country and
was a God-given
right
Inventions & Entrepreneurs
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Terms to Know
• Inventor: a
person who is
the first to
think of or
make
something
Terms to Know
• Entrepreneur: a
person who
organizes
resources to
bring a new or
better good or
service to market
in hopes of
earning a profit
New Technologies
1. Cotton Gin
– Invented by Eli
Whitney
– Increased the
production of
cotton
– Increased the need
for slave labor to
cultivate and pick
cotton
New Technologies
2. McCormick
Reaper:
– Invented by Robert
McCormick and Jo
Anderson (a slave)
– Cyrus McCormick was
an entrepreneur who
brought it to market
– Increased
productivity of the
American farmer
New Technologies
3. Steamboat
– improved (not invented)
by Robert Fulton
– eventually provided
faster river
transportation
connecting Southern
plantations and farms
to Northern factories
and Western
territories
New Technologies
4. Steam Locomotive
– Once the
Transcontinental
Railroad was built, the
Western territories
were connected to the
Eastern States
– provided a MUCH
faster mode of
transportation
Key Vocabulary to Define
Textbook Pages 384-389
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Industrial Revolution
Textiles
Richard Arkwright
Samuel Slater
Technology
Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts
Mass Production
Chapter 12
Section 1
Key Information
(pages 384-389)
Contributor
1. Richard Arkwright
2. Samuel Slater
3. Eli Whitney
4. Robert Fulton
5. Cyrus McCormick
6. Steam Locomotive
Invention/Improvement
Textbook Pages 454-459
• DEFINE THESE IN YOUR BINDER
• Key Terms & People:
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Abolition
William Lloyd Garrison
American Anti-Slavery Society
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Frederick Douglas
Sojourner Truth
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Textbook Pages 454-459
Movement
(Abolition or Suffrage)
Members
(Person’s Name)
Methods
(What They Did and
How They Did It)
Abolitionist Movement
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Abolitionist Movement
• #1 Most abolitionists
demanded the immediate
freeing of the slaves
• #2 Abolitionists believed
slavery was:
– morally wrong
– cruel and inhumane
– A violation of the
principles of democracy
(freedom)
Abolitionist Leaders
• #3 Harriet Tubman
– Led hundreds of
enslaved African
Americans to freedom
along the Underground
Railroad
Underground Railroad
Abolitionist Leaders
• #4 William Lloyd
Garrison
– Wrote the Liberator
newspaper
– Worked for the
immediate emancipation
of all enslaved African
Americans
Abolitionist Leaders
• #5 Frederick Douglass
– Wrote the North Star
newspaper and worked
for rights for African
Americans and women
to better their lives
Suffrage Movement
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Suffragist Movement
• #6 Supporters
declared that: All men
and women are
created equal.
Suffragist Movement
• #7 Supporters
believed that women
were deprived of
their basic rights:
– Denied the right to
vote
– Denied equal
opportunities in
business
– Limited in the right to
own property
Suffragist Leaders
• #8 Movement was led
by strong women who
began their campaign
before the Civil War
and continued after
the war ended.
Suffragist Leaders
• #9 Isabella
(Sojourner) Truth
– A former enslaved
African American, was
nationally known
advocate for equality
and justice
Suffragist Leaders
• #10 Susan B. Anthony
– was an advocate to gain
voting rights for women
and equal rights for all
Suffragist Leaders
• #11 Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
– played a leadership role
in the women’s rights
movement
– wrote the Declaration
of Sentiments (a Bill of
Rights for Women)
– Presented at the first
women’s rights
convention in Seneca
Falls, New York