1. Mr. Condry’s Social Studies Class
WESTWARD EXPANSION
Mr. Condry’s Social Studies Class

2. WHY MOVE WEST? Population growth in the eastern states
Cheap, fertile land
Economic opportunity (gold rush, logging, farming, freedom (for runaway slaves)

3. WHY MOVE WEST?
Cheaper, faster transportation (rivers and canals {Erie Canal}, steamboats, etc.)
Knowledge of overland trails (Oregon &Santa Fe)
Belief in Manifest Destiny (idea that expansion was good and right for the country)

5. NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Cotton gin (Eli Whitney) – increased production of cotton & increased the need for slaves to grow & pick it

6. NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Reaper (Cyrus McCormick) – increased production of the farmer

7. NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Steamboat (Robert Fulton) – faster transportation from Southern plantations to factories of the North

8. NEW TECHNOLOGIES Steam locomotives – faster land transportation
Sturbridge Lion (imported England) John Bull (imported England)

9. WESTWARD EXPANSION Louisiana Purchase Florida Texas Annexation
Oregon Country
California (Mexican Cession)

10. LOUISIANA PURCHASE Jefferson purchased land from Napoleon in 1803
Cost 15 Million Dollars
Doubled the size of the United States

11. LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
Lewis & Clark were hired to explore from Mississippi River to Pacific Ocean
Sacajawea was a guide

12. LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark
Journey lasted May 1804 to September 1806
All but one man survived the trip. Sergeant Charles Floyd died of infection from a ruptured appendix

13. LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
Primary objective
to explore and to map the newly acquired territory
to find a practical route across the western half of the continent
to establish an American presence in this territory before Britain and other European powers tried to claim it

14. LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
Secondary Objective Scientific and economic:
to study the area’s plants, animal life, and geography
To establish trade with local Native American tribes.

15. Florida 1819 Florida was purchased from Spain
Adams-Onis Treaty also known as the Transcontinental treaty

17. REPUBLIC OF TEXAS Independent sovereign country
Existed from March 2, 1836 to February 19, 1846
Stephen Austin “Father of Texas”
Sam Houston 1st president of Texas

18. REPUBLIC OF TEXAS Alamo
13 day siege from General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Killed all Texians
Led to the Mexican American War
Davy Crockett
Jim Bowie

19. The Annexation of Texas
Texas annexed in 1845
Becomes the 28th State on December 29, 1845
Tension expands between Mexico and the United States

20. MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
War between United Mexican states and United States of America between 1846 to 1848

25. MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR Strengths Casualties Strengths Casualties
United States
Mexico
Strengths
32,000 soldiers and marines
59,000 militia
Casualties
1,733 killed in battle
13, 283 total dead
Strengths
34,000-60,000 soldiers
Casualties
25,000 dead
6,000 killed in battle and died from disease
4,000 civilians
15,000 died from all causes

26. MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the major consequence of the war.
U.S. agreed to pay $15 million compensation for the physical damage of the war.
Increased the issue of Slavery in the United States

27. OREGON COUNTRY
Divided with Great Britain – Britain got British Columbia
Contained states of Washington, Oregon, and part of Idaho
Oregon Trail helped people settle there

28. CALIFORNIA John C. Fremont military Governor
Part of the Mexican Cession after the Mexican War (1845)
Sutter’s Mill
Gold Rush of 1849
Forty-niners
Sacramento

29. The Gadsden Purchase
Purchased from Mexico because we thought that we would build a transcontinental railroad there.
Bought 1853

31. COLOR YOUR MAP: 13 Colonies Not shown or colored on this map!
Old Northwest
Gadsden Purchase
Alaska Purchase
Hawaiian Annexation
Old Southwest
Louisiana Purchase
Florida
Texas Annexation
Oregon Country
Mexican Cession

32. MANIFEST DESTINY

33. Religion and Westward Expansion
Missionaries were the first white permanent settlers in Oregon
Mormons would leave their settlement in Ohio do to clashes with other settlers and move west.
Christianity would be taught to the natives as a way of “fixing” the Native American problem

34. ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT
Most abolitionists demanded freedom for slaves
Abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong
Morally wrong
Cruel and inhumane
A violation of the principles of democracy
Leaders
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass

35. SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
Supporters declared that “All men and women are created equal.”
Supporters believed that women were deprived of basic rights.
Denied the right to vote
Denied educational opportunities
Denied equal opportunities in business
Limited in rights to own property
Leaders
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton