Transcript Industrial Revolution - St. Agnes Catholic School

Industrial Revolution
James Monroe
• 5th president of the United States, elected in
1820
• Monroe Doctrine
– Future colonization by Europeans in the area
promised to the United States was forbidden
– United States would not take part in European
wars
New Technology
• Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the
late 1700s and slowly moved to the U.S.
• Quicker ways to manufacture muskets for the
army
• Machinery for farmers
• Machinery to mass produce goods like cloth
New Transportation
• Erie Canal connected New York with the Great
Lakes and opened in 1825
• New York City became the largest city in the
country and a center for trade
• Steam powered engines paved the way for the
first railraods
John Quincy Adams
• 6th president
• Wonderful diplomat who was fought in his
policies by his Congress
• Very opposed to any U.S. involvement in the
problems of other countries
Phyllis Wheatley
• The first important African American poet
• She was kidnapped from Africa at age eight
and brought to the colonies
• The people she was sold to taught her to read
and write
• She eventually published her own poetry
collection
Andrew Jackson
• A war hero of 1812, he was the first president
elected from a state west of the Appalachian
mountains
• He had little formal education and ran as “the
common man” winning by a landslide
Jackson’s Presidency
• Jackson was all about protecting farmers’
rights
• He was an enemy of the United States
national bank
• He also thought that Native Americans were a
threat to the growth of the United States
The Trail of Tears
• In 1831, the U.S. government began forcing
Native Americans off their land
• The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the
Native Americans and their chief, John Ross
• Jackson refused to obey the court and ordered
the removal
Trail of Tears (cont.)
• Soldiers rounded up Native Americans, burned
their homes, and forced them to leave
• The 800 mile march west went on for one year
• 4,000 out of the 15,000 Cherokee people died
along the way
The Missouri Compromise
• In 1820, we had 22 states…11 did not allow
slavery and 11 did
• The Missouri Compromise brought in two new
states: The slave state of Missouri and the free
state of Maine
• It also said no more slavery in land north of the
36, 30’ latitude (Missouri’s southern border)
War with Mexico
• Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821
and Texas was part of their country
• Land in Texas was cheaper than the United
States
• Slavery was illegal in Mexico but allowed in
Texas
War with Mexico (cont.)
• Mexicans required citizens to be catholic and
learn Spanish
• Most Texans ignored this
• American Texans began to outnumber Mexicans
• Mexico outlawed slavery which angered
American Texans
Remember the Alamo!
• The Texas army took control of a Spanish
mission in San Antonio called the Alamo
• Texas was defeated by the Mexican army and
their soldiers executed by Santa Anna, the
Mexican president