Expansion and Reform: 1801 1861

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Expansion and Reform 1801 - 1861
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The Louisiana Purchase

• Formerly owned by the French
• Thomas Jefferson wanted New Orleans
• James Monroe negotiates with France
• Prepared to offer 10 million
• Problem is

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Napoleon strapped for cash

• French want 15 million
• For all of Louisiana
• Monroe, astounded, accepts the offer.
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed 1803
• U.S. doubles in size

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Manifest Destiny

• U.S. will takeover North America
• Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819
• Texas Annexation of 1845
• Oregon Treaty of 1846
• Treaty of Cahuenga 1847

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Authorized by President Thomas Jefferson
• First American Expedition to Pacific
• Sent to Explore Pacific-Northwest
• Sacagawea accompanied as a Guide
• Mapped Northwestern U.S. territories

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The Oregon Trail More than a Sweet Computer Game

• One of many paths West
• Economic Pressures
• Opportunity
• Immigrant Groups

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Inventions

• The Cotton Gin
• The Reaper
• The Steam Locomotive
• The Steam Boat

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Sectionalism

• Missouri Compromise - 1819
• Compromise of 1850
• Bleeding Kansas - 1854-58
• Nullification Crisis States Rights
• Lincoln-Douglass Debates - 1858

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Abolitionism

• The point of sectionalist tensions
• Usually more racist than tolerant
• 1820-30s American Colonization Society
• John Brown - NOW!
• American Anti-Slavery Society

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