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12.2 Americans Move Westward

12.2 Americans Move Westward. Main Idea During the early 1800’s, a flood of settlers pushed the frontier ever farther to the West. Western Expansion. Land and economic opportunity. Manifest Destiny. Large numbers of settlers moved toward the western frontier. Moving West.

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12.2 Americans Move Westward

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  1. 12.2 Americans Move Westward Main Idea During the early 1800’s, a flood of settlers pushed the frontier ever farther to the West.

  2. Western Expansion • Land and economic opportunity. • Manifest Destiny. • Large numbers of settlers moved toward the western frontier.

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

  4. A Growing Population • From 1792-1819 what eight states joined the Union (United States)?

  5. Roads and Turnpikes • Turnpikes are toll roads. • Amer. Gov. and private investors help built network of roads. • What are corduroy roads?

  6. National Road • 1838, extends from MD to IL. • Infrastructure.

  7. 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.

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

  9. Slave and Free States • How many free states were there and how many slave states in 1819? • Missouri wanted to be admitted as what kind of state? • Northern states worried that the south would have too much power in congress.

  10. Missouri Compromise, 1820 • When terr. pop. reaches 60,000 may apply for statehood. • Henry Clay was a senator who persuaded Congress to approve the Missouri Compromise.

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

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

  13. 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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