Transcript Indian Removal Act, 1830

Standard 11.1.4
• Examine the effects of the Civil War and
Reconstruction and of the Industrial Revolution,
including demographic shifts and the
emergences in the late 19th century of the United
States as a world power.
• Essential Question: Explain how the Civil War
and Reconstruction Era changed the
demographics of the United States.
6th President~ John Quincy Adams
(1825-1829)
• Extension of Voting Rights
• Before 1800s
– white men w/$$$ who
attended church
• Early 1800s
– given to all white men
• Changed who got elected
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7th President~ Andrew Jackson
(1829-1837)
• Indian Removal Act, 1830
– “voluntary” removal of all Indians
S.C. ruled it illegal but Jackson
did it anyway
• Trail of Tears, 1835-1839
– 100,000 Indians moved
– A Bureau of Indian Affairs was
created protect Indian rights/land
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• It is with considerable diffidence that I attempt to
address the American people, knowing and
feeling sensibly my incompetency; and believing
that your highly and well improved minds would
not be well entertained by the address of a
Choctaw. But having determined to emigrate
west of the Mississippi river this fall, I have
thought proper in bidding you farewell to make a
few remarks expressive of my views, and the
feelings that actuate me on the subject of our
removal ... We as Choctaws rather chose to
suffer and be free, than live under the degrading
influence of laws, which our voice could not be
heard in their formation.”
• —-George W. Harkins, George W. Harkins to
the American People
2nd Great Awakening, 1820s
• Goal~ moral perfection
– Led to social reforms
• Slavery, women’s suffrage, humane
treatment of criminals, etc
• Civil Disobedience
• Peacefully refuse laws you think are
immoral
• “Wall of Separation”
– Church & State
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Charles Finney
Abolitionism, 1830s – 1860s
• Tried to end slavery in the US
– 2 million slaves
– Slave revolts (200)
• Pushed for legal, financial, & social reform
• Underground railroad
– Harriet Tubman
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Women’s Rights Movement
• Seneca Falls Convention,
1848
• Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, & Susan B. Anthony
– Declaration of Sentiments
• Demanded equality
• Borrowed ideas from Declaration
of Independence
• Ignored
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Manifest Destiny, 1840s
• US was intended by God to stretch from the
Atlantic to the Pacific
– Leads to expansion (Oregon, Texas)
– War w/ Mexico
– Coined by John Sullivan (1845)
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Expansion
• Mexican-American War,
1846
– Boarder disputes (Texas &
Mexico)
– US won, grew by 1/3
• fought over new territory
(free or slave)?
• Gold found in 1849 (CA)
• Forty-niners
• The Compromise of 1850
made CA a state
– Free
– Unbalanced
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Causes of the Civil War
1. Mexican-American War
– Free or slave???
2. Sectionalism
3. Dred Scott decision
1857
– The S.C. ruled that a slave
is property no matter
where they are
•
This made all states slave
states.
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