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Title: Western Migration


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Western Migration
2
Standards and Essential Question
  • SSUSH 7b Describe the westward growth of the
    US include the emerging concept of Manifest
    Destiny
  • E.Q. What were some of the reasons for western
    expansion?

3
Take Five
  • Why did people want to move out west?
  • What is the difference between booster and a
    boomer---think about the football team
    supporters when answering

4
The American West
  • Early Pioneers
  • Rugged Frontiersmen
  • Developers
  • Town Boosters
  • Professional Boomers
  • Squatters
  • Claim jumpers
  • Thomas Hart Benton
  • Squatters rights
  • Graduation

5
Sen. Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri)
6
  • Soldiers
  • Role of the military post

7
The Urban Frontier
  • Development of western cities
  • Speculation
  • Ordinance of 1785
  • The Land Act of 1804
  • Wildcat banks
  • Panic of 1819

8
Land Act of 1804
  • 320 acres _at_ 2.00 per acre 640.00
  • 160 acres _at_ 2.00 per acre 320.00
  • 80 acres _at_ 1.25 per acre 100.00

9
East vs. West (recap)
  • Henry Clay
  • Internal improvements
  • Highway system and toll roads
  • A National Road (Cumberland Rd)
  • Opposition
  • The American system

10
Henry Clay

11
Transportation Revolution
  • Canals
  • Erie Canal
  • Mainland Canal
  • Railroads
  • B O

12
Erie Canal
13
Take Five
  • What problems are associated with early steam
    transportation?

14
Transportation Revolution (recap)
  • Steamships
  • Problems with navigating rivers
  • James Watt
  • Robert Fulton
  • The Clermont
  • Accidents

15
James Watt
16
Robert Fulton

17
The Clermont
18
Take Five
  • How will Henry Clays American System impact the
    market economy of the US?
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