1. Industrialization review
You are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever you want with little or no government interference. ____________________
The movement from rural to urban area (city) _______________
A change from agriculture to industry (factories) ______________
Eli Whitney invented _________________ and ______________.
Agriculture inventions were ___________, _____________
River travel _____________, _________________
Bessemer Steel process- How does it work?
Lowell Mill girls

2. American Progress by John Gast

4. What is Manifest Destiny?
The U.S. government , President Polk, and its citizens believed that the nation’s destiny or fate was to expand westward from sea to sea. (Pacific Ocean)
“ the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.“
John O’Sullivan

5. Manifest Destiny Westward expansion
Is it our God given right to expand west? Why? Why not?
How will we acquire all of these territories?
Will the benefits outweigh the negative consequences?
Manifest Destiny Westward expansion

7. Economic Roots of Manifest Destiny
New land for farmers
New trade routes and markets (trails)
New opportunities to start a business
Economic Roots of Manifest Destiny

8. Political roots of Manifest destiny
Expansion of our nation’s borders/territory
Expansion of slavery

9. Social Roots of manifest destiny
Remove Native Americans
Refuge for persecuted groups (mormons)

10. Louisiana Purchase
Result: Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. It doubled the size of our country.

11. Louisiana Purchase 1803
Label the colonial territory-13 Colonies and color light green, write 1607 as the year
Label the Louisiana Purchase and color it Red, write 1803 as the year.

12. Lewis and Clark were chosen by Jefferson to explore the area.
It took 18 months and nearly 4,000 miles.
New animals and species of plants were discovered as well as new geography information-rivers, mountains.
Sacagawea, a Native American woman helped Lewis and Clark across the wilderness.
Louisiana Purchase 1803

13. Residents- runaway slaves, Seminole Indians, Spanish, English traders
Florida
Residents- runaway slaves, Seminole Indians, Spanish, English traders
Result: Spain did not want to fight the United States so it gave Florida to the United States in exchange for $5 million in damage claims by the Georgia settlers and Jackson

14. Label the territory and color it pink.
Florida
Label the territory and color it pink.
The date is 1819

15. The United States annexed Texas into the U.S.
Annexation of Texas
Result: Texas asked to become part of the U.S. but was told by Mexico that war would be declared if they were annexed.
The United States annexed Texas into the U.S.

16. Label Texas and color it orange.
The date is 1845.

17. Oregon Country
Result: President James Polk settled the Oregon boundary dispute. He made an agreement with Britain to make the northern border of Oregon the 49th Parallel.

18. trails

19. Donner party Video

20. https://youtu.be/4VYs9yLaWmg

21. The Oregon Trail
Approximately 2,200 miles long starting from Independence, Missouri.
Later other trails were created to further travel in other directions.
Travelers were inspired by dreams of gold and new farmland.
The trail was created by fur trappers and traders.
Later improvements to the trails would be better roads, ferries, bridges, and cut outs for mountains.
The trails were used by an estimated 350,000 settlers. However, when railroads were completed then the need for trails was lessened.

22. trails

23. Label the Oregon Territory and color it light green.
The date is 1846.

24. Mexican American War
Causes of war- Border disputes, annexation of Texas
The United States and Mexico go to war from Mexico loses and in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo the U.S. receives California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, and Wyoming.
Border will be Rio Grande
Recognized the annexation of Texas
In exchange we paid them $15 million. .

25. Label Mexican Cession and color it brown.
The date is 1848.

26. Mexican Cession
* Polk offers to buy from Mexico & they refuse
*War!
*US wins
*In Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, US offers $15 million for

27. Gadsden Purchase
Gadsden purchased the land from Mexico and completed the transcontinental railroad without violence.

28. Label the Gadsden Purchase and color it light blue.
The date is 1853.