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16.1 Americans Move Westward

16.1 Americans Move Westward. Main Idea During the early 1800’s, a flood of settlers pushed the frontier ever farther to the West. Why It Matters Now The infrastructure created assisted the movement of people, trade and the economy. Standards.

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16.1 Americans Move Westward

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  1. 16.1 Americans Move Westward Main Idea During the early 1800’s, a flood of settlers pushed the frontier ever farther to the West. Why It Matters Now The infrastructure created assisted the movement of people, trade and the economy.

  2. Standards • 8.6.2 Outline the physical obstacles to and the economic and political factors involved in building a network of roads, canals, and railroads (e.g., Henry Clay’s American System). • 8.9.5 Analyze the significance of the States’ Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise (1820), the Wilmot Proviso (1846), and the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay’s role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas- Nebraska Act (1854), the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision (1857), and the Lincoln-Douglas debate (1858).

  3. Daily Guided Questions • In which ways did the building of better roads and canals (Erie Canal and the National Road) help the nation grow? • What were the main points of the Missouri Compromise and how did it resolve a conflict between the North and South?

  4. Quick Write • “You are a recent European immigrant who just arrived to New York Harbor. What are your plans, will you stay and work in the cities or head south or west and become a farmer. What do you look forward in the future?”

  5. Western Expansion • Land and economic opportunity. • Manifest Destiny. -belief that the U.S. should extend from ocean to ocean. • Large numbers of settlers moved toward the western frontier.

  6. Moving West • Daniel Boone an early pioneer helped clear Wilderness road. -Cumberland Gap. -Crossed Appalachian Mtns. into Kentucky.

  7. A Growing Population Due to Western migration, eight states were created. -Kentucky, 1792 -Tennessee, 1796 -Ohio, 1803 -Louisiana, 1812 -Indiana, 1816 -Mississippi, 1817 -Illinois, 1818 -Alabama, 1819

  8. Roads and Turnpikes • Turnpikes are toll roads. • Amer. Gov. and private investors help built network of roads. -Had to pay to travel on it. • Corduroy roads-Roads made from sawed-off logs. -Used on marshy land.

  9. National Road • Cumberland Rd. • 1838, extends from MD to IL. • Infrastructure.

  10. Canals • A channel that is dug across land and filled with water (man-made river). • Other states build 3,000 miles of canals by 1837.

  11. Erie Canal • Links Lake Erie to the Hudson River. -Great Lakes to the Atlantic.

  12. Slave and Free States • 11 each. • Missouri wanted to be admitted as what kind of state? • Missouri wanted to become a slave state. -Would upset the balance between slave and free states. • Northern states worried that the south would have too much power in Congress and spread of slavery.

  13. Missouri Compromise, 1820 • When terr. pop. reaches 60,000 may apply for statehood. • Missouri was ready, Maine was not. • Henry Clay was a senator who persuaded Congress to approve the Missouri Compromise.

  14. Preserved balance between slave and free states. -Maine: Free, Missouri: Slave. -South of 36*30’ line allows slavery to be legal. -Allowed slave owners to pursue escaped fugitive slaves into “Free regions.”

  15. A Continuing Problem • The Missouri compromise revealed deep divisions between the North and the South over the issue of slavery.

  16. WHAT/WHY IMPORTANT/AS A RESULT Vocabulary Chart

  17. Primary Source pg. 628 • Primary source: Fredrika Bremer, “A Day Among the Swedes at Pine Lake”, on textbook pg. 628. • Read everything and answer the two (not 3rd) questions at the bottom.

  18. Answers • Many hardships like a lot of hard labor (on poor farm land), but the family kept growing. • She is glad because her children will have a better future in this country then they would have in their old one.

  19. Study Guide pg. 123 • Copy and complete the study guide pg. 123. • Use the text book pg. 275-279 and notes to complete

  20. Essential Questions • In which ways did the building of better roads and canals (Erie Canal and the National Road) help the nation grow? (pg. 276-277) • What were the main points of the Missouri Compromise and how did it resolve a conflict between the North and South? (pg. 278)

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