Map of the Louisiana Purchase

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Map of the Louisiana Purchase
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Map of the Louisiana Purchase
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Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Meriwether Lewis
• William Clark
• From the Mississippi River to the Pacific
  Ocean

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Acquisition of Florida

• From Spain 1819
• Given to the US through a treaty
• Made a US territory in 1821

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Map of Florida
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Acquisition of Texas in 1845

• Was an Independent Republic in 1836a country
  of its own
• Then added to the United States

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Map of Texas in 1836
The map shows the boundaries of Texas as
understood by Texans in 1836 and by the United
States when it annexed Texas in 1845.
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Map of Texas
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Acquisition of Oregon 1846

• Oregon Territory
• Divided between US and Great Britain
• 1840s Oregon Trial

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Map of Oregon Territory
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Acquisition of California

• US at war with Mexico 1846
• Rio Grande Border dispute (Texas)
• 1848 Mexico surrenders
• US gains California and the Southwest territory.

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California

• Many people wanted to go to California for the
  chance to find GOLD!

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Map of California and the SW
territory
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Westward Expansion USI.8b
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Why Go West?

• How do economic and geographic factors influence
  human migration (the movement of people)?

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USI.8bWhat do I need to understand?

• Westward migration was influenced by geography
  and economic opportunity (the chance to make
  money).

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What factors influenced westward migration?
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PopulationGrowth

• The growing population in
  the eastern states.
• Crowded
• People wanted more space between themselves and
  their neighbors.

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Need for Land

• Availability (Lots of it)
• Cheap
• Fertile

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Economic Opportunity

• Gold
• Logging
• Farming
• Freedom

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Gold California Gold Rush
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Logging Jobs money
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Farming to make money
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Freedom For runaway slaves
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Cheaper Faster Transportation

• Rivers
• Canals

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Erie Canal Linked the Great Lakes w/ rivers
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Steamboats
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Knowledge of overland trails

• Oregon Trail

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Knowledge of overland trails

• Santa Fe Trail

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Belief in Manifest Destiny

• The right and duty to spread across the continent
  all the way to the Pacific Ocean
• expansion was good
• for the country

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NewTechnologies USI.8c
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Inventions

• Why do people invent and how do inventions affect
  peoples lives?
• How do inventions reflect and influence
  historical events?

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USI.8cWhat do I need to understand?

• Prior to the Civil War, most industrialization in
  America was in the North.
• However, the equipment produced in the North had
  an impact on the farming society in the South.

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How did the inventions affect the lives
of Americans?
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New Technologies

• Cotton Gin
• Eli Whitney
• Increased production of cotton
• Increased need for slave labor to cultivate and
  pick cotton

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Cotton Gin
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New Technologies

• Reaper
• Cyrus McCormick
• Jo Anderson (slave)
• Increased the productivity of the American Farmer.

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• Reaper

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New Technologies

• Steamboat
• Robert Fulton
• Provided faster river transportation
• Connected Southern plantations and farms to
  Northern industries

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• Steamboat

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New Technologies

• Steam Locomotive
• Provided faster land transportation

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Are all people created EQUAL?
Reform
USI.8d
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Abolitionist Movement USI.8d
Reform
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Abolitionist Movement

• What motivates people to change their society?
• How can people change society effectively?

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USI.8dWhat do I need to understand?

• The abolitionists worked to end slavery.

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What were the main ideas expressed by the
abolitionists?
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Vocabulary

• Abolitionist
• Someone who fought to end slavery

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Key ideas behind the Abolitionist Movement

• Many abolitionists believed that slaves should be
  freed immediately

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Key ideas behind the Abolitionist Movement

• Abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong
• Morally wrong
• Cruel and inhumane
• Violated principles of democracy (created equal)

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Harriet Tubman
Abolitionists leaders included men and women

• A slave, she escaped in 1849 and became one of
  the most successful conductors on the
  Underground Railroad.

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William Lloyd Garrison

• The Liberator
• Took a stand for immediate and complete abolition
  of slavery

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Frederick Douglass

• A fugitive slave
• Established a newspaper and gave speeches
  against slavery.

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Suffrage Movement USI.8d
Reform
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Suffrage Movement

• What motivates people to change their society?
• How can people change society effectively?

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USI.8dWhat do I need to understand?

• The suffrage movement helped women gain equal
  rights.

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Vocabulary

• Suffrage
• the right to vote

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What were the main ideas expressed
during the suffrage movement?

• All men and women are created equal

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Key ideas behind the suffragist movement

• Women were deprived of basic rights
• Right to vote
• Educational opportunitiesespecially higher
  education (college)

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Key ideas behind the suffragist movement

• Women were deprived of basic rights
• Equal opportunities in business
• Limited rights to own property independently

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Leaders of the Suffrage Movement

• The movement was led by strong women who began
  their campaign before the Civil War and continued
  after the war ended.

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Isabel Sojourner Truth

• Wanted emancipation and womens rights

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Susan B. Anthony

• Lectured on womens rights

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Called the first womens right convention in the
  United StatesSeneca Falls, N.Y.
• Stanton served as the president of the National
  American Woman Suffrage Association

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Elizabeth Cady Stantonand Susan B. Anthony

• Stanton often served as the writer and Anthony as
  the strategist in this effective working
  relationship