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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
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
• 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
FLORIDA
• Spain gave Florida to
the United States
through a treaty
TEXAS
• Stephen Austin
• Sam Houston
• Alamo
– Davy Crockett
– Jim Bowie
• Texas Republic
• Mexican War
– Santa Anna
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
• “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)
• Treaty of Guadalupe-
Hidalgo.
• 1848 Mexico gave up
California, New Mexico
Florida
Texas
Annexation
Oregon Country
Mexican
Cession
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