1. Pre-Civil War
Unit 1

2. Westward Expansion
Unit 1

3. Manifest Destiny
The belief that the United States has a divine right to expand its territory.
*John L. O’Sullivan coined the phrase

5. Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States (1800 – 1808)
Political philosopher, horticulturist, architect, inventor and much more
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
Lewis and Clark Expedition ( )
Wife Martha
Children 6 (5 girls and 1 son), none of his children live to adulthood and his wife dies in childbirth after 10 years of marriage. Never marries again.
Affair with slave Sally Hemings

6. Louisiana Purchase

7. The Louisiana Purchase 1803
James Monroe and Robert Livingston buy the land for about 15 million dollars.
*The purchase doubles the size of our country at that time.

8. Lewis and Clark Expedition
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
40 people went on trip

9. As the men make their way to the Pacific, Jefferson wants the men to gather information on:
Flow of rivers
Natural resources and possible economic development
Climate
Plant growth
Geology
Contact with Indians
Animals

12. Sacajawea Husband – Touissant Charonneau Tribe – Shoshone
Insists on bringing wife and child
Tribe – Shoshone
Name – Bird woman

13. Journal Entry
Plants
Animals
People
Weather
Landscape
Structures

15. President Monroe claimed that,
The Monroe Doctrine
President Monroe claimed that,
“the American continents are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.”

16. Texas Independence
March 2nd, 1836: Texas declares it’s independence from Mexico.
March 6th, 1836: The Alamo Falls
1836 – 1845 Texas becomes a country (the Republic of Texas)
December 29th, 1845 Texas becomes a state

17. Oregon Country
In 1846 the U. S. makes an agreement with Great Britain to get the Oregon Country
President Polk
“54 40 or fight”

19. The Mexican War
War begins due to a disagreement of the Texas southern border which the U. S. said was the Rio Grande River.
Major General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City ending the war.
Under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo which ends the war, the U. S. gets the Mexican Cession.

21. The Gold Rush
In January of 1848, gold is found at Sutter’s Mill in California
In 1849, people from all over the world “rush” to California

22. The Gadsden Purchase
The U. S. paid Mexico 10 million dollars for a strip of land south of the Gila River in Arizona and New Mexico.
This land provided a route for a southern transcontinental railroad.

24. Alaska “Seward’s Folly” 1867 From Russia for 7.2 million dollars
Secretary of State – William Seward
1867
From Russia for 7.2 million dollars
586,000 square miles
1.9 cents per acre

25. Father Kino
In the 1700’s started missions in the Southwest

26. San Juan Capistrano

27. Industrial Revolution in America

28. First Steam Powered Boat
1787
John Fitch
Delaware River

29. Textile Machinery Factory
First in America
Providence, Rhode Island
Samuel Slater

31. The Cotton Gin 1793 Eli Whitney
Increases the speed cotton could be cleaned

32. Interchangeable Parts
Eli Whitney
Leads to products being mass produced

33. Telegraph Samuel F. B. Morse
Coded pulses (short and long) of electricity
First message sent 1844
“What hath God wrought?”

34. Transportation Improvements
National Road is constructed
Maryland to Illinois
Erie Canal is built in 1825
Connects the Great Lakes to the Hudson River creating easier and cheaper travel
Railroads
Started building in the East to travel West