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Title: USI.8 EXPANSION


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USI.8 EXPANSION
USI.8A describe territorial expansion and how
it affected the political map of the United
States, with emphasis on the Louisiana Purchase,
the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the
acquisitions of Florida, Texas, Oregon, and
California.
USI.8B identify the geographic and economic
factors that influenced the westward movement of
settlers.
USI.8C describe the impact of inventions,
including the cotton gin, the reaper, the
steamboat, and the steam locomotive, on life in
America.
USI.8D identify the main ideas of the
abolitionist and suffrage movements.
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WESTWARD MOVEMENT
USI.8A-D
Oh, Susannah (5)
3
WHY MOVE WEST?
USI.8B
  • Population growth in the eastern states
  • Cheap, fertile land
  • Economic opportunity (gold rush, logging,
    farming, freedom (for runaway slaves)
  • Cheaper, faster transportation (rivers and canals
    Erie Canal, steamboats, etc.)
  • Knowledge of overland trails (Oregon Santa Fe)
  • Belief in Manifest Destiny (idea that expansion
    was good and right for the country)

4
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
USI.8C
  • Cotton gin (Eli Whitney) increased production
    of cotton increased the need for slaves to grow
    pick it
  • Reaper (Cyrus McCormick) increased production
    of the farmer
  • Steamboat (Robert Fulton) faster transportation
    from Southern plantations to factories of the
    North
  • Steam locomotives faster land transportation

5
WESTWARD EXPANSION
USI.8A
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Florida
  • Texas Annexation
  • Oregon Country
  • California (Mexican Cession)

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LOUISIANA PURCHASE
USI.8A
  • Jefferson purchased land from France
  • Doubled the size of the United States
  • Lewis Clark were hired to explore from
    Mississippi R. to Pacific Ocean
  • Sacajawea was a guide

Cajun music (2)
7
Louisiana Purchase
  • 1803
  • Cost 15 million dollars
  • Purchased by Jefferson from Napoleon
  • Doubled the size of the U.S.

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FLORIDA
USI.8A
  • Spain gave Florida to the United States through a
    treaty

Swanee River FL State Song (2)
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Florida
  • 1819 Florida was purchased from Spain
  • Adams-Onis Treaty

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TEXAS
USI.8A
  • Stephen Austin
  • Sam Houston
  • Alamo
  • Davy Crockett
  • Jim Bowie
  • Texas Republic
  • Mexican War
  • Santa Anna

Yellow Rose of Texas TX State Song (2)
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The Annexation of Texas
  • Texas breaks from Mexico and declares its
    independence in 1836.
  • The U.S. annexed Texas in 1845.
  • Led to the Mexican/American War.

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OREGON COUNTRY
USI.8A
  • Divided with Great Britain Britain got British
    Columbia
  • Contained states of Washington, Oregon, and part
    of Idaho
  • Oregon Trail helped people settle there

Oregon State Song ? (2)
13
Oregon Territory
  • 5440 or Fight.
  • British withdrawal in 1846.

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CALIFORNIA
USI.8A
  • John C. Fremont
  • Part of the Mexican Cession after the Mexican War
    (1845)
  • Sutters Mill
  • Gold Rush of 1849
  • Forty-niners
  • Sacramento

All the Gold (3)
Let Me Be There (3)
15
Mexican Cession
  • Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
  • 1848 Mexico gave up California, New Mexico

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16
The Gadsden Purchase
  • 1853
  • Purchased from Mexico because we thought that we
    would build a transcontinental railroad there.

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17
Actual Map of Expansion
Here is how it looks overall.
River of Dreams (4)
18
Expansion of the United States
Can you find the misspelled word?
19
COLOR YOUR MAP
13 Colonies
Not shown or colored on this map!
Old Northwest
Gadsden Purchase
Alaska Purchase
Hawaiian Annexation
Old Southwest
Louisiana Purchase
Florida
Texas Annexation
Oregon Country
Mexican Cession
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MANIFEST DESTINY
21
ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT
USI.8D
  • Most abolitionists demanded freedom for slaves
  • Abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong
  • Morally wrong
  • Cruel and inhumane
  • A violation of the principles of democracy
  • Leaders
  • Harriet Tubman
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • Frederick Douglass

Go Down, Moses (1)
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
The Liberator
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SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
USI.8D
  • Supporters declared that All men and women are
    created equal.
  • Supporters believed that women were deprived of
    basic rights.
  • Denied the right to vote
  • Denied educational opportunities
  • Denied equal opportunities in business
  • Limited in rights to own property
  • Leaders
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sojourner Truth
I am Woman (1)
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