1. Write the names of the territories next to its number
Warm Up- March 17, 2014
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Write the names of the territories next to its number

2. Please make a new unit page on the next right hand page in your spiral.
The title is:
WESTWARD EXPANSION
Groups of people seek out new opportunities
that will help them expand and improve.

3. Please go get your text book.

4. Trends in America:
Greater democracy & the return of the two-party system
Emergence of a national market economy
Increase in federal power
New intellectual & religious movements
Social reforms
Further westward expansion
Temperance, Abolition, Women’s Rights, Education & Asylum Reform
Transcendentalism
Second Great Awakening
Universal white manhood suffrage
Democrats vs. Whigs
American System: transportation, tariff, 2nd BUS
Rise in industry, urbanization, immigration
Jefferson’s purchase of Louisiana
Jackson’s use of the veto
“King Cotton,” commercial farming, slave vs. paid labor systems

5. Western Exploration
John C Fremont mapped the overland trails to Oregon & California
Jedediah Smith was the 1st American to explore California
Major Stephen Long mapped the Great Plains & tried to scare off British fur trappers
Zebulon Pike explored the Great Plains & Rocky Mountains
Lewis & Clark were part of 1st U.S. sponsored western exploratory mission

6. Overland Immigration to the West
Between 1840 & 1860, more than 250,000 people made the trek westward

8. Manifest Destiny
A conviction(idea) shared by many Americans that it was the divine fate of the United States to extend its borders from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

9. Louisiana Purchase (1803) Florida (1819) Purchased from France
Doubled the size of the U.S.
Florida (1819)
Purchased for $5 million from Spain

11. Annexation of Texas (1845)
annexation_-to add on a territory onto your country
Texas won independence from Mexico
James K Polk (President 1844)
U.S. reluctant to add a slave state, but did in 1845

12. The Oregon Boundary Dispute
But, the USA & England compromised & divided Oregon along 49th parallel in 1846
Oregon residents demanded the entire territory: “54º40’ or fight!”
In 1846, President Polk notified Britain that the U.S. wanted full control of Oregon

13. Territorial Expansion by Mid-19th Century
Benefits of Oregon: the U.S. gained its 1st deep-water port in the Pacific & Northern abolitionists saw Oregon as a balance to slave-state Texas

14. Oregon Country Lure =geography (fertile soil, mild temps, rainfall)
Claimed by both Britain and America
Compromised on the 49th parallel with a treaty-1846

15. U.S. Mexican War ( )
Mexico was upset and disputed the southern border of Texas
Nueces River or Rio Grande??
The U.S. tried to buy Mexican Cession, but failed
President Polk orders troops into the contested area (picking a fight)-1846

16. The Mexican-American War
John C Fremont won in California
The Mexican-American War
The disputed area of Texas
Zachary Taylor won in northern Mexico
Stephen Kearney captured New Mexico
Kearney captured New Mexico & Frémont took California
Scott occupied Mexico City
Winfield Scott captured Mexico City

17. The Rio Grande became the recognized U.S. southern border
Ending the Mexican War
The U.S. grew 20% by buying the Mexican Cession for $15 million (present-day NM, AZ, CA, Utah, NV, & parts of CO & WY
In 1848, U.S. & Mexico ended the war with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo:
The Rio Grande became the recognized U.S. southern border

18. Gadsden Purchase (1853)
purchased from Mexico for $10 Million
bought for a Railroad that linked the South and the Pacific Coast

19. Crash Course: War and Expansion