Westward Expansion

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Westward Expansion
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Manifest Destiny

• First coined by newspaper editor, John
  OSullivan in 1845.

• ".... the right of our manifest destiny to over
  spread and to possess the whole of the
  continent which Providence has given us for
  the development of the great experiment of
  liberty and federaltive development of
  self-government entrusted to us. It is right
  such as that of the tree to the space of air
  and the earth suitable for the full expansion of
  its principle and destiny of growth."

• A myth of the West as a land of romance and
  adventure emerged.

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• People were moving to the area between the
  Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
• Lots of fertile soil, lots of land, wide rivers,
  and variety of fish and game.
• Increase in number of settlers led to problems
  with the Native Americans

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Treaty of Greenville

• 1795 12 Native American nations gave up parts
  of what is now Ohio and Indiana in return for a
  yearly payment of 10,000 from the US govt.
• Caused increase in number of settlers moving into
  the region

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Louisiana Purchase

• 1803 Napoleon needs money and agrees to sell LA
  Territory to the US for 15 million, doubling the
  size of the US

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Industrial Revolution

• The American Industrial Revolution occurred
  between 1790 and 1860. It began in England in the
  18th century and spread to the United States.
• Cotton gin
• National road
• Canals
• Steam boats
• Railroads
• Why we were these inventions so important.

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Henry Clays American System

• The American System was a program Clay set out.
• To help Northern factories, the American system
  called for high tariffs on imports.
• High tariffs would also reduce American
  dependence on foreign goods.
• Southerners opposed paying for roads and canals
  that brought no direct benefits.

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• To make it easier and cheaper for farmers in west
  and south to ship goods to city markets, they
  made a better transportation system.
• The American System never went into effect,
  because Congress spent little on internal
  improvements, tariffs remained high.

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• Oregon Territory at this time was jointly owned
  by the U.S and Great Britain.
• In 1819 the Adams-Onis Treaty gave Florida to the
  U.S. because Spain was becoming to weak to
  control it.
• It also set up the Oregon Territory at the 42nd
  parallel in the north and 49th parallel in the
  south even though it was disputed upon later the
  49 parallel became the national order of America
  today

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Land 221
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Monroe Doctrine

• A policy created by President Monroe. It warned
  all outside nations not to interfere with affairs
  in the Western Hemisphere. This includes creating
  new colonies or trying to conquer in dependent
  republics in the western hemisphere. If they did
  then the U.S. would see this as dangerous to our
  peace and safety. In return America would do the
  same.

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Westward expansion problems

• The Territory of Missouri has enough people to
  become a state in 1819
• In 1818 Illinois gained its statehood and became
  the 11th free state upsetting the balance10-11
• So naturally Missouri would become a slave state.
  Right????

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• Well a bill was passed that required Missouri to
  eventually have to free their slaves
• This upset southerners why??
• While arguing continued Alabama was admitted as a
  slave state. Making it 11-11.
• But there still is a problem.

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• This was settled by the Missouri Compromise in
  1820.
• It stated that Maine would be admitted as a free
  state, and Missouri become a slave state. For
  further issues over new territory in areas west
  of this they drew a line 36 degree 30 north
  latitude line every new state north of this line
  be free except Missouri and south be slave.

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Results of election of 1824
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Voting Requirements changed
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Voting
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Age of Jackson

• If the voting qualifications changed what does
  this mean for presidential candidates?????????????
  ???
• They had appeal more to the common man now. More
  people could vote that were not wealthy.
• Andrew Jackson took full advantage of this
  opportunity.

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• During his campaign of 1828 he portrayed Adams as
  a wealthy intellectual that did not know what the
  common man wanted or needed.
• He portrayed him self as a person of humble
  origins, but was he?????
• He appealed to the majority of the people and
  during his inauguration record numbers of people
  came out to see him.
• Who does this remind you of??????

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Election of 1828 Election of 2008

• D 69,457,000 R 59,934,814
• 173
• 52.9 45.7

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• As people begin to move west a since of
  individualism came about people could make some
  thing of them selves as they moved westward and
  started there new lives
• Also with the voting requirement changing the
  common man thought that he could make a change.

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Indians Removed

• Indian removal act of 1830
• Displaced them from their homes in Alabama,
  Georgia Mississippi, Tennessee and the Carolinas
  and in the areas close to the Great Lakes. To
  Reserves modern day Oklahoma.

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Trail of Tears

• The Cherokee were sent off 800 miles from their
  land as the winter came more and more died as the
  journey got rough. Government official stole
  their money and outlaws stole their live stock.
  More than a quarter of there people were buried
  on the trip the land that they were given was
  very inferior to the land that they had.
• Was this necessary ????

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Manifest Destiny

• the belief that the United States was destined,
  even divinely ordained to expand across the North
  American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to
  the Pacific Ocean.