1. Growth of a New Nation
SS8H4 The Student will explain significant factors that affected westward expansion in Georgia between 1789 and 1840.

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3. Map of the United States : exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections & distances of the post-offices, stage roads, counties & principal rivers / by Abraham Bradley Jun'r
CREATED/PUBLISHED [5th ed.] Philadelphia : Made and sold by Caldcleugh and Thomas, [1804]

4. The U. S. Expands As a new country we begin to establish ourselves in the world.

5. Following the American Revolution, the United States began to expand
Following the American Revolution, the United States began to expand. There was a thirst for land and for the independence it brought to its owners. Farming was the country’s main occupation and source of income.

6. Louisiana Purchase of 1803

7. Thomas Jefferson negotiated the purchase from France that doubled the size of the United States
for just $15,000,000.

8. Socrative.com Question
True or False.
Thomas Jefferson had the power, under the US Constitution, to negotiate the Louisiana purchase.

9. Even though he knew that there was no executive authority in the Constitution to purchase the territory, he feared Spain and France had the power to block American trade access to the port of New Orleans.
Then, in 1804 he sent an expedition (Corps of Discovery) into this unknown territory to find a “Northwest Passage”.

10. Corps of Discovery
Lewis and Clark explored the newly acquired land for a water route through the continent.

11. Socrative.com Question
What were the results of the Lewis and Clark expedition?

12. Age of Expansion and Economic Growth
Even though the Revolution left the U.S. in financial ruin and few people had any money to pay taxes, there were many new inventions that soon brought prosperity.
mechanized farming tools, steamboats, and railroad engines
advances in industry, business, and commerce

13. Socrative.com Question
Which invention was said to have been the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution?

14. Steam engines power many new inventions

15. people was made easier and consequently caused economic growth.
Early steamboat
Advances in transportation created business opportunities and the movement of goods and
people was made easier and consequently caused economic growth.
Canal boat being towed by a mule.

16. Economic impact of new inventions
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin
Increased the speed at which the seeds could be removed from the cotton.
Cotton now becomes a profitable cash crop.
Increased the demand for labor to tend the new fields of cotton that were now being planted.
Date Created/Published: 1869 Dec. 18.

17. Socrative.com Question
How do you think Eli Whitney’s invention impacted slavery in the south?

18. Video Clip

19. Time saving and labor saving = economic gains
Cyrus McCormick’s Grain Reaper

20. Innovations in Reaping and Threshing change agriculture and food stores
Reaping is the
cutting down of
the wheat.
Threshing is removing the grains from the stalk.

21. Land Fever in Georgia

22. Land policies Georgia tries to attract new settlers
Georgia uses different systems to give land away
Headright system was the first method used and gave the land to the white male “head’ of the family which had the “right” to receive up to 1,000 acres (lands east of the Oconee River)
Land lotteries began around 1803 when any white male at least 21 years of age could buy a chance to spin the lottery wheel for a designated land lot (lands west of the Oconee River)

23. Yazoo Land Fraud of 1795
One of the worst political scandals in GA history
When GA borders still went west to the Mississippi River
Native tribes such as the Creek and Cherokee still lived there

24. Yazoo River located in the present day state of Mississippi
Land speculators tried to make profits from the sale of this land
First needed to own it in order to sell it for profit
Bribed the governor and legislators to pass the Yazoo Act which sold this land (35 million acres) to four main speculation companies for merely $.02 an acre
(See map on slide 14)

25. Yazoo Fraud discovered
New settlers bought this land
Citizens of Georgia discover the bribery (fraud) and replace all the legislators the following year in the next election
Newly elected General Assembly repeals the Act which now causes confusion on ownership of the land
Laws suits are filed by those who bought the land and did not want to give up their claims
This went all the way to the Supreme Court which settled by paying off all the claims
Georgia’s new border now becomes the Chattahoochee River, Georgia ceded the disputed land to the federal government in exchange for $1,250,000

26. Socrative.com Question
How did the Yazoo land fraud impact the Native Americans living in the area?