PowerPoint Presentation Chapter 2

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• Territorial Expansion Westward
• Slow migration Daniel Boones Wilderness Road
  in 1775
• Louisiana Purchase 1803- 15 million mass
  exodus westward
• Lewis Clark s 1804-06 journey Sacagaweas
  help along with her French husband
• NW Ordinance of 1787 60,000 people for
  statehood and Government of Territories

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• Natives the threat of white settlers
• Good intentions in the beginning NW Ordinance
• Ohio Natives were mad because the whites were
  killing game Native attacks War in 1794.
  Treaty of Greenville ended the conflict as Gen
  Wayne torched the Native villages.
• Shawnee Natives Tecumesh and Tenskwatawa 1811
  attack from Harrison (later a President)
• The Cherokee Solution adapted to US ways
  (roads, taxes, laws) Trail of Tears Sequoyah.

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Early Humor
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Native Humor
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More Humor
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• Industrial Revolution Gradual shift from farms
  to factories
• 1800s boom in economy shift in economy with
  textiles
• Lowells factories all stages of production
  (vertical integration) farmers daughters as a
  labor force

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• Transportation Revolution moving goods and
  people
• Roads and Turnpikes
• Rivers and Canals Erie Canal 1825 363 miles
  long
• Railroads during 1830s 3,300 miles of track
  were built
• The American System Henry Clays system
• Tariffs, Bank of US, Southern complaints!

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Chapter 2 Section 3New Political Era

• Andrew Jackson- Hero of the War of 1812 -common
  man in the Election of 1828.
• Spoils System? - change this idea!!
• Jackson vs. National Bank - power over Congress
  economy
• Webster Clay for bank - Jacksons Second term
  killed it.
• Jackson vs. Tariffs (Southerners did not like
  tariffs)
• Whig party vs. Jackson (democrat) common person

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• Religion- Most people were unimpressed w/churches
  and the wealth and prestige. Second Great
  Awakening
• Revivals and circuit riders - new flames in
  America
• Fear of damnation
• Reforms - raise themselves to a better place!
• Mormons and Shakers create Utopian Societies
• Women headed many reform groups temperance,
  womens rights, mental health, public ed.

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• Slavery -1804 ended in North (1807-slave trade
  ended as well)
• Abolitionism a movement to end slavery
• Emancipation freedom of African Americans while
  protecting businesses in the South.
• Fredrick Douglass escaped slave who became a
  brilliant abolisionists and speaker.
• William Lloyd Garrison white abolitionists who
  burned flags and created a newspaper called The
  Liberator.