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2 1825-1850

3 9:1 Market Revolution 1. Samuel Morse 2. Specialization 3. Market Revolution 4. Capitalism- economic system in which private businesses/individuals control means of production (like factories, land, machines) to earn profits.

4 5. entrepreneurs 6. New Inventions: –Charles Goodyear 1839- –Elias Howe 1846- –Alex. Graham Bell- –Marconi- –John Deere- –Cyrus McCormick-

5 SUMMARY: Identify 2 inventions that enhanced people’s lives and explain how they fueled the country’s economic growth.

6 9:2 Manifest Destiny 1. Manifest Destiny- phrase that expressed Americans belief that the U.S.’ destiny was to expand to the Pacific Ocean & into Mexican Territory. This destiny was manifest (obvious).

7 2.Americans were moving west : 1.Personal economic problems 2.Abundance of land was greatest attraction for farming or speculation 3. Santa Fe Trail- busiest, well-known trade route 780 miles from Independence Missouri to Santa Fe,NM

8 4. Oregon Trail- Independence, MO to Portland, OR……Methodist missionaries set up mission schools to convert Native Am. & Educate them. –See Conestoga wagons & life/death on Oregon trail p284

9 Treaty of Fort Laramie Black Hawk Illinois Black Hawk War 1832 rebelled vs. U.S.- 200 slaughtered

10 5. Mormons-religious group founded by Joseph Smith. Moved West due to protest against practice of polygamy- having more than one wife. Smith murdered in jail. Brigham Young- led Mormons beyond US boundary to Salt Lake City, UT

11 6. “Fifty-four forty or fight” –James K. Polk slogan (1844) referred to 54’40 latitude line as northern limit of disputed OR. Terr. James Knox Polk

12 SUMMARY: Summarize reasons American settlers moved west during mid- 1800’s Describe the impact of westward expansion on Native Americans

13 9:3 Expansion in TX. Obj: Explain why Mexico encouraged settlement in TX 1. Stephen F. Austin 2. Land grants 3. Tensions grew when US settlers of cotton/sugar were bringing their slaves & MX had abolished slavery (1824)

14 4. G.T.T. 5.S.F. Austin met w/Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna 6.Alamo- 7. Sam Houston- The Fall of the Alamo" by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk depicts Davy Crockett in a charge at the Mexican troops who have breached the walls of the mission.

15 Sam Houston b/c President of this Republic of TX 8. 1838 S.Houston invites US to ANNEX - (incorporate) TX republic into the U.S. 1844 TX becomes 28 th state ……..Mexico is furious!....

16 Summary: Explain why Mexico encouraged settlement in TX territory How did TX end up gaining its independence?

17 9:4 WAR with MEXICO 1. John Slidell- 2. Gen. Zachary Taylor 3. Slave issue affected debate over war: NORTH-opposed war (seeing it as a way to extend slavery to TX. SOUTH-favored war for same reason

18 4. Pres. Polk provoked MX ? 5. Winfield Scott 6. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Mexican Cession= 7. Gadsden Purchase 8. “forty-niners”

19 Summary Identify U.S. territories gained from Mexico Explain the impact of the discovery of gold in CA on the development of the West


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