Chapter 15 Section 2 Expansion and Reform in the US

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Chapter 15 Section 2Expansion and Reform in the
US
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Territorial Growth

• US has major growth 4 million by 1788. 13 states
• 1900 60,000,000 and 45 states
• How many people are in America today?

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The Northwest Territory

• NW territory East of Mississippi River, North
  of the Ohio River and South of the Great Lakes.
• NW ordinance provided a form of government.
  Territory govt created after 5,000 males.
• When a territory had 60,000 people then they
  could create a constitution and apply to become a
  state.

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Continued Expansion

• 1803 French emperor Napoleon sold the US the
  Louisiana Territory.
• Doubles the size of the United States.
• Purchases Florida from Spain in 1819.
• Oregon Territory in 1846 from England.
• Americans begin settling in Texas, Mexican
  territory resulting in the Mexican War.

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Continued Expansion

• Won Texas Independence. Texas was an independent
  nation for 9.5 years.
• 1853 Gadsden Purchase acquired more land from
  Mexico
• (part of New Mexico and Arizona)

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Expansion across North America

• Manifest Destiny belief that God intended
  Americans to populate the land.
• 1830 Indian Removal Act
• Indians forced to move 800miles to Oklahoma known
  as the Trail of Tears.

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Slavery and Civil War

• The US suffered from Sectionalism, or competition
  among sections or regions of the country.
• North industrial (relied on immigrants)
• South Agriculture (relied on slaves)
• Causes of War economic factors and slavery
• Abe Lincoln is elected President and South
  Carolina secedes (withdraw) from the Union.

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Confederate States and the Civil War

• American Civil War 1861-1865.
• Began when Confederate soldiers fired on Fort
  Sumter, SC
• Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
  freeing the slaves in the South.
• France and England less likely to help the South
  over slavery issue.
• North wins war. 600,000 people dead. Disease is
  biggest killer.

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• 13th Amendment abolished slavery
• 14th Amendment - grants citizenship to "all
  persons born or naturalized in the United States"
  which included former slaves.
• 15th Amendment African-American men the right
  to vote.

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Suffrage and Political Growth

• Originally, only white male property owners could
  vote. Property restrictions were soon dropped.
• 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton held a Womens Rights
  Convention. Pushed for right to vote and
  equality.
• Given the right to vote in 1920 by the 19th
  Amendment.