1. Westward
(note I have not yet had time to add references to the images in this presentation and will do so as soon as I can)
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2. Westward
Settlers looked for good land and moved west until they found it. Self-reliance allied with sense of community. The "frontier spirit"?
Westward movement blocked by Appalachians. Trail found through the Cumberland Gap in 1775 (Daniel Boone) provided access to fertile plains in what is now Kentucky and Tennessee.
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3. 1860s engraving of Daniel Boone
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4. TV image of Daniel Boone 1664-70: James Stewart
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5. The Louisiana Purchase
In severe need of resources during the Napoleonic wars, France sold Louisana to the fledgling republic in This was a huge tract of land.
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6. 1775
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7. 1790
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8. 1800
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9. Louisiana purchase 1803 ($15 million) for 2,144,476 m2
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10. The West
Lewis and Clarke, expedition overland to Pacific and back.
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11. 1810
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12. 1820
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13. 1830
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14. Mexican cession ($15 million, treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 after Mexican American war 1846-1848)
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15. Gadsden purchase (from Mexico, $10 million)
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16. 1840
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17. 1850
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18. 1860
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19. 1870
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20. 1880
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21. 1900
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22. 1920
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23. 1970
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25. War of 1812
War between France and Britain, between 1803 and Tensions. British especially took American sailors and pressed them into service in the Royal Navy.
In 1812 war was declared by Congress. The USA tried, unsuccessfully, to invade Canada. The British occupied Washington and burnt the White House.
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26. War of 1812
The War was ended in December 1814 (though before the news reached America a final battle had been fought and won by American forces in New Orleans).
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27. Westward ho!
In the meantime increasing numbers of people were moving westward in search of land. They increasingly came up against hostile Indians, keen to resist the unwelcome newcomers. Initially the government was keen to ensure the Indians would be treated fairly.
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28. Westward ho!
However President Monroe in 1817 claimed that the Indians would have to make way, to become civilized themselves or become extinct.
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29. Mormon trail
The Mormon trail started in Illinois and went to Salt Lake Valley. Salt Lake City was founded in 1846 (Utah) after a long trek led by Joseph Smith's successor Brigham Young. Utah was admitted to the United States in 1896 when the Mormons finally agreed to abandon polygamy. (Mormons founded 1830 Joseph Smith)
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30. Oregon & California trails
Used by settlers to North West and West coast.
The California trail, which used part of the Oregon trail, was the route taken by a quarter of a million farmers and gold-seekers (see Gold rush late 1840s ("49ers"). San Francisco grew rapidly from a village to a city and major port.
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31. Indian Wars 1861-6 Apache and Navajo wars Red Cloud's war 1866-1868
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Battle of Little Bighorn 1876, "Custer's last stand"
1890 "Battle" or Massacre of Wounded Knee
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32. Civil War 1861-5. Approx 560,000 deaths. Causes: contested.
After election Abraham Lincoln 1860 seven states seceded
SC, Misissippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Luoisiana, Texas. Confederate States of America. Four more states joined VA, Arkansas, NC and Tennessee. Kentucky neutral.
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33. Civil War
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