Transcript The main events in U.S.A during the Mark Twain`s time（1835

The main events in U.S.A
during the Mark Twain's
time（1835-1910）
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stirring(动荡的) years
• The U.S.-Mexican War
• The Gold Rush
• Westward Expansion
• Civil war
The U.S.-Mexican War
(1846-1848)
• Reasons
• a.the desire of the U.S to expand
across the North American continent
to the Pacific ocean caused the
conflict
• b.the Texas War of Independence and
the subsequent annexation（合并） of
that area to the United States.
• On February
2,1848.The treaty
was signed,calling
for the
annexation(合并)of
the norhern
portions of Mexico
to the United
States.In return,he
U.S. agreed to pay
$15 million to
Mexico as
compensation for
the seized territory
the Gold Rush
(1848-1858)
what is "gold rush"
• when: 1848-1858
• why: the gold and
mine resources was
found in the
California,San
Francisco
• how: a large people
even gave up their
jobs to the california
for the gold
Results on the gold rush
• improved the california area
development of economy
• mine companies were built and run
• few people got rich while most
failed(include Mark Twain)
• people life was disturbed and
dissapointed for few gold
• california was shining with blood
Westward Expansion
• a movement of people from the settled
regions of the United States to lands
farther west.
• Since the late 18th centuries to the late
19th centuries, Anglo-American people
and their society expanded from the
Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast.
Process of Westward
Expansion
• It took American colonists a century
and a half to expand as far as the
Appalachian Mounts, a few hundred
miles from the Atlantic coast.
• It took another 50years to push the
frontier to the Mississippi river.
Seeking cheap land and inspired by the
notion that Americans had a manifest
destiny to stretch across the continent,
pioneers by 1850 pushed the edge of
settlement to Texas, to the Southwest.
significance
• The massacre of the native Indians.
• Expand the nation’s border more than
3million square miles.
• It means that much . North America
was controlled by the English
institutions and ways of life;
It was one of the most influential forces
to shape North American history
Civil war(1861-1865)
• a 4-year armed
conflict between
northern and
southern sections
of the United states
which seceded from
the Us in opposition
to the proposed
abolition of salvery.
• The North (Federal States or the
Union)
--The manufactures and the
businessmen want a unified national
market and expansion of capitalist
competition. To protect the
development of American industry
• The South (the confederate states of
American
--The planters defend salvery as the
main
source of wealth
• The war went on for 4 bitter years ,with
ups and downs on both sides. Finally
the Confederate army had to
surrender, ending the war in 1865. As a
result of the war, salvery was
abolished and the Union was
preserved.