1. War and Expansion in the United States

2. Objectives Trace U.S. expansion to the Pacific
Describe effects of the Civil War
Analyze postwar economic expansion

3. Americans Move West Manifest Destiny Indian Removal Act of 1830
The idea that the Unites States had the right and duty to rule North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Trail of Tears
800 mile journey on foot
¼ of the Cherokee died on the way

4. Americans Move West
Texas Joins the United States
1845 – Texas is annexed by the United States
Mexico – still claiming Texas – Sees this as an act of war
After Mexican independence from Spain Americans begin to settle in Mexico
Once there, settlers became up happy with Mexico’s rule
1836 – Texas right and win their independence

5. Americans Move West War with Mexico Mexican-American War
May 1846 – Feb 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
California
Large part of the Southwest
Gadsden Purchase
Settled boarder with the US – Mexico
29,640-square-mile
$10,000,000

6. Civil War Tests Democracy
North and South
Northern Economy
More diverse
Factories
Farms
Southern Economy
Less diverse
Mostly farms
Cash crops
Slave based
Northern population
Wanted slavery outlawed in the west
Morally wrong
Southern population
Saw slavery as economically necessary
Fertile soil in the west for cash crops

7. Civil War Tests Democracy
Civil War Breaks Outs
Abraham Lincoln
Promised to stop the spread of slavery
Secede
With draw from the union
Confederate States of America
American Civil War
Fort Sumter, South Carolina

8. Civil War Tests Democracy
Abolition of Slavery
Reconstruction
Emancipation Proclamation
Declared all slaves in Confederate states to be free
Did nothing as first, but was symbolic
The war was against slavery
Kept Europeans out of the war
As the Northern army advanced they freed slaves in the surrounding areas
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery in the United States
14th Amendment
Citizenship to all former slaves
Union troops occupied the south to enforce constitutional amendments
Jim Crow Laws
Laws making it nearly impossible for African-Americans to vote
Segregation Laws
Laws separating African-Americans from whites

9. The Postwar Economy 1870s 1914 2,000 immigrants a day
Immigration
The Railroads
1870s
2,000 immigrants a day
1914
20,000,000 people had moved to the United States from Europe and Asia
Transcontinental Railroad – 1869
1900 – 200,000 miles of track
Would help the United States become the world leader in many production industries

10. Why was the Cherokee journey called the Trail of Tears?
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11. How was the effect of the Mexican-American War greater than its cause
How was the effect of the Mexican-American War greater than its cause? What did we set out to do? What did we gain?
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12. Why did Southerners feel threatened by Lincoln?
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13. How might the Irish Potato Famine have effected U.S. industrialization?
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