2. Important Dates 1803: Louisiana Purchase (to the Rocky Mountains)
1804: Lewis & Clark expedition
1812: US declares war on Great Britain
1814: Star Spangled Banner written by Francis Scott Key
1820: Missouri Compromise bans slavery in parts of new territories
1838: Trail of tears from Georgia to Oklahoma

4. Important Dates continued
1846: Mexican war begins
1848: Mexican war ends & US expands borders
1848: California gold rush begins
1848: Women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York
1850: California admitted to the Union

6. Interesting Facts
In 1800 the US had 16 states, by 1803 it had doubled in size
In 1803 Andrew Jackson ushered in the era of the common man = the property requirements were eliminated for voting rights
In 1838 on the Trail of Tears 4,000 of 15,000 Cherokees died
In 1845 Texas was admitted to the Union
In 1861 the Civil War began

8. Westward & Beyond! We were moving westward at an incredible pace
New technologies were emerging daily
Factories were popping up everywhere
Why?
What did this mean for the US?

10. Literature
Romanticism: elevated imagination over reason and intuition over fact, valued nature, the fantastic aspects of the human experience.
New England Renaissance ( ): celebrated intellectual independence from England
Possibility of Evil: explored the depths of human nature and said it was dusky and full of sin, guilt, humility, insanity, and cursed.

11. Literature cont.
Transcendentalism: Real truth lies outside the experience of the senses. A human can arrive at truth of life through spiritual insight if he/she takes time to think about it.
Anti-slavery: were in support of the war in order to abolish slavery

12. What we will be reading The Devil and Tom Walker Nature poetry
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Scarlet Letter (our first book)
Transcendental poetry
Civil war poetry
Poems about death & life & is there a difference