2. America’s Growing Pains and Jacksonian Democracy

3. Westward Movement Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase gave many Americans the desire to move west to gain new opportunities.

4. Many Americans began to believe in the idea of “Manifest Destiny”

5. “Manifest Destiny” – Belief that God wanted Americans to spread across North America Also the belief that we were entitled to the entire continent.

6. Zeke has died of dysentery!

7. American settlers began to spread into Texas (which was owned by Spain) and the Oregon Territory (which was claimed by England, Russia, Spain and the US).

8. Problems in Mexico Originally Mexico welcomed American settlers into Texas.

9. By 1836, 40,000 had moved to the area and Mexico no longer felt like they had control.

10. Americans in Texas declared their independence (as they are fond to do).

11. Mexico sent an army under Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna to defeat the rebellion.

12. Battle at the Alamo 189 Americans and 600 Mexicans killed.

14. Following the battle at the Alamo, the Mexican army was defeated at San Jacinto, and forced to recognize Texas’ independence.

15. Texan Independence Between 1836 and 1846, Texas was an independent country (which contributes to their sassy attitude).

16. Their first and third president was Sam Houston.

17. Andrew Jackson Jackson came from a family of poor farmers from the Carolinas.

18. He was rough around the edges, often fought duels and was loved by the people for his success in the War of 1812.

19. Presidency Jackson won the presidency in 1828, elected as a man of the people.

20. One of his first acts as president was the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

21. This act forcefully moved members of the five “civilized” Indian tribes to what is now Oklahoma. –Tribes included the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole.

22. By this time, they were more like whites than many other nations.

23. The “Trail of Tears” Native Americans were forced to march hundreds of miles to the new lands in Oklahoma.

24. As many as 4,000 died along the way The new lands were not as good as the ones they left.

25. Jackson was a man of the people and his presidency was an attempt to give the average people more power.

26. He thought that poor, untrained people could rule He did not like the aristocracy

27. “Spoils system” – giving political jobs as rewards to friends and followers

28. Jackson often used the presidential veto to block laws and policies that he did not like.

29. He was such a popular president that he could often do this without any political damage.

30. He used his veto power on the National Bank, effectively destroying it. –He wanted money to be controlled by local banks.

31. Elimination of the national bank caused widespread inflation and a financial crisis in 1837.

32. “Inflation” – the condition when money loses its value “Panic of 1837”

34. Jackson increased the number of people who could vote

35. Land ownership requirements were eliminated so all white men of a certain age could vote. –Women and African Americans could still not vote.

36. Women’s Suffrage “Suffrage” – the right to vote

37. Women’s suffrage movement was led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. –Many women’s suffrage leaders were wealthy women with connections.

38. Women met at Seneca Falls, New York to discuss their beliefs.

39. Abolition Movement “Abolition” – the desire to free slaves

40. Leaders included William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas, and Harriet Beecher Stowe

41. Most abolitionists were from New England Why would they be from New England?

42. Garrison wrote a newspaper called The Liberator which spread abolitionist ideas

43. Douglas was an escaped slave who spoke out against slavery throughout the North and later organized African American regiments in the Civil War.

44. Stowe wrote a book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin which showed many Northerners how bad slavery was.

45. This book was very unpopular in the South

46. Later, when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe during the Civil War, he said, “so this is the very small woman who began this very large war.”