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.
WESTWARD MOVEMENT
USI.8A-D
“Oh, Susannah” (5)
USI.8B
WHY MOVE WEST?
• 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)
USI.8C
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
• 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
USI.8A
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Louisiana Purchase
Florida
Texas Annexation
Oregon Country
California (Mexican
Cession)
USI.8A
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
• 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)
Louisiana Purchase
• 1803
• Cost 15 million dollars
• Purchased by
Jefferson from
Napoleon
• Doubled the size of
the U.S.
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USI.8A
FLORIDA
• Spain gave Florida to
the United States
through a treaty
“Swanee River” – FL State Song (2)
Florida
•1819 Florida was
purchased from
Spain
•Adams-Onis
Treaty
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USI.8A
TEXAS
• Stephen Austin
• Sam Houston
• Alamo
– Davy Crockett
– Jim Bowie
• Texas Republic
• Mexican War
– Santa Anna
“Yellow Rose of Texas” – TX State Song (2)
The Annexation of Texas
• Texas breaks from
Mexico and declares
it’s independence in
1836.
• The U.S. annexed
Texas in 1845.
• Led to the
Mexican/American
War.
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USI.8A
OREGON COUNTRY
• 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)
Oregon Territory
• “5440’ or Fight”.
• British withdrawal in 1846.
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USI.8A
CALIFORNIA
• John C. Fremont
• Part of the Mexican
Cession after the
Mexican War (1845)
• Sutter’s Mill
– Gold Rush of 1849
– Forty-niners
– Sacramento
“All the Gold” (3)
“Let Me Be There” (3)
Mexican Cession
• Treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo.
• 1848 Mexico gave up
California, New Mexico
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The Gadsden Purchase
• 1853
• Purchased from Mexico because we thought
that we would build a transcontinental
railroad there.
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Actual Map of Expansion
Here is how it looks overall.
“River of Dreams” (4)
Expansion of the United States
Can you find the misspelled word?
13 Colonies
COLOR YOUR MAP:
Old Northwest
Old Southwest
Louisiana
Purchase
Florida
Texas
Annexation
Oregon Country
Mexican
Cession
Not shown or colored on this map!
Gadsden
Alaska
Hawaiian
Purchase
Purchase
Annexation
MANIFEST DESTINY
USI.8D
ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT
• Most abolitionists demanded freedom for slaves
• Abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong
– Morally wrong
“Go Down, Moses” (1)
– Cruel and inhumane
– A violation of the principles of democracy
• Leaders
Harriet Tubman
– Harriet Tubman
– William Lloyd Garrison
– Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
The Liberator
USI.8D
SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
• Supporters declared that “All men and women are
created equal.”
• Supporters believed that women were deprived of
basic rights.
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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)