EXPANSION

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EXPANSION
USI.8A describe territorial expansion and how
it affected the political map of the United
States, with emphasis on the Louisiana Purchase,
the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the
acquisitions of Florida, Texas, Oregon, and
California.
USI.8B identify the geographic and economic
factors that influenced the westward movement of
settlers.
USI.8C describe the impact of inventions,
including the cotton gin, the reaper, the
steamboat, and the steam locomotive, on life in
America.
USI.8D identify the main ideas of the
abolitionist and suffrage movements.
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WESTWARD MOVEMENT
Oh, Susannah (5)
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WHY MOVE WEST?
USI.8B

• Population growth in the eastern states
• Cheap, fertile land
• Economic opportunity (gold rush, logging,
  farming, freedom (for runaway slaves)
• Cheaper, faster transportation (rivers and canals
  Erie Canal, steamboats, etc.)
• Knowledge of overland trails (Oregon Santa Fe)
• Belief in Manifest Destiny (idea that expansion
  was good and right for the country)

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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
USI.8C

• Cotton gin (Eli Whitney) increased production
  of cotton increased the need for slaves to grow
  pick it
• Reaper (Cyrus McCormick) increased production
  of the farmer
• Steamboat (Robert Fulton) faster transportation
  from Southern plantations to factories of the
  North
• Steam locomotives faster land transportation

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WESTWARD EXPANSION
USI.8A

• Louisiana Purchase
• Florida
• Texas Annexation
• Oregon Country
• California (Mexican Cession)

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LOUISIANA PURCHASE
USI.8A

• Jefferson purchased land from France
• Doubled the size of the United States
• Lewis Clark were hired to explore from
  Mississippi R. to Pacific Ocean
• Sacajawea was a guide

Cajun music (2)
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Louisiana Purchase

• 1803
• Cost 15 million dollars
• Purchased by Jefferson from Napoleon
• Doubled the size of the U.S.

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FLORIDA
USI.8A

• Spain gave Florida to the United States through a
  treaty

Swanee River FL State Song (2)
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Florida

• 1819 Florida was purchased from Spain
• Adams-Onis Treaty

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TEXAS
USI.8A

• Stephen Austin
• Sam Houston
• Alamo
• Davy Crockett
• Jim Bowie
• Texas Republic
• Mexican War
• Santa Anna

Yellow Rose of Texas TX State Song (2)
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The Annexation of Texas

• Texas breaks from Mexico and declares its
  independence in 1836.
• The U.S. annexed Texas in 1845.
• Led to the Mexican/American War.

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OREGON COUNTRY
USI.8A

• Divided with Great Britain Britain got British
  Columbia
• Contained states of Washington, Oregon, and part
  of Idaho
• Oregon Trail helped people settle there

Oregon State Song ? (2)
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Oregon Territory

• 5440 or Fight.
• British withdrawal in 1846.

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CALIFORNIA
USI.8A

• John C. Fremont
• Part of the Mexican Cession after the Mexican War
  (1845)
• Sutters Mill
• Gold Rush of 1849
• Forty-niners
• Sacramento

All the Gold (3)
Let Me Be There (3)
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Mexican Cession

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
• 1848 Mexico gave up California, New Mexico

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The Gadsden Purchase

• 1853
• Purchased from Mexico because we thought that we
  would build a transcontinental railroad there.

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Actual Map of Expansion
Here is how it looks overall.
River of Dreams (4)
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Expansion of the United States
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