Transcript War and Expansion in the United States - Andrew Mooney

WAR AND EXPANSION IN THE UNITED STATES
p. 325-327
Objectives
• Trace U.S. expansion to the Pacific
• Describe effects of the Civil War
• Analyze postwar economic expansion
AMERICANS MOVE WEST
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny
• The idea that the Unites States had the right and
duty to rule North America from the Atlantic Ocean
to the Pacific Ocean
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Trail of Tears
• 800 mile journey on foot
• ¼ of the Cherokee died on the way
AMERICANS MOVE WEST
Texas Joins the United States
After Mexican independence from Spain
Americans begin to settle in Mexico
Once there, settlers became up
happy with Mexico’s rule
1836 – Texas right and win their
independence
1845 – Texas is annexed by the United States
Mexico – still claiming Texas – Sees this as an act of
war
AMERICANS MOVE WEST
War with Mexico
Mexican-American War
• May 1846 – Feb 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
California
Large part of the Southwest
Gadsden Purchase
• Settled boarder with the US – Mexico
• 29,640-square-mile
• $10,000,000
CIVIL WAR TESTS DEMOCRACY
North and South
Northern Economy
• More diverse
Northern population
• Factories
• Wanted slavery outlawed in the west
• Farms
• Morally wrong
Southern Economy
• Less diverse
• Mostly farms
• Cash crops
• Slave based
Southern population
• Saw slavery as economically necessary
• Fertile soil in the west for cash crops
CIVIL WAR TESTS DEMOCRACY
Civil War Breaks Outs
Abraham Lincoln
• Promised to stop the spread of slavery
Secede
• With draw from the union
Confederate States of America
American Civil War
• Fort Sumter, South Carolina
• 1861-1865
CIVIL WAR TESTS DEMOCRACY
Abolition of Slavery
Reconstruction
Emancipation Proclamation
1865-1876
• Declared all slaves in Confederate states to be free
• Did nothing as first, but was symbolic
• The war was against slavery
• Kept Europeans out of the war
• As the Northern army advanced they freed slaves in the surrounding
areas
13th Amendment
• Abolished slavery in the United States
14th Amendment
• Citizenship to all former slaves
• Union troops occupied the south to enforce
constitutional amendments
Jim Crow Laws
• Laws making it nearly impossible for AfricanAmericans to vote
Segregation Laws
• Laws separating African-Americans from whites
THE POSTWAR ECONOMY
Immigration
The Railroads
1870s
Transcontinental Railroad – 1869
• 2,000 immigrants a day
1914
• 20,000,000 people had moved to the
United States from Europe and Asia
1900 – 200,000 miles of track
Would help the United States become the
world leader in many production industries
Why was the Cherokee journey called the Trail of
Tears?
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How was the effect of the Mexican-American War greater than
its cause? What did we set out to do? What did we gain?
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Why did Southerners feel threatened by Lincoln?
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How might the Irish Potato Famine have effected
U.S. industrialization?
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