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Westward Expansion. What reasons have you heard for why Americans went west?. Manifest Destiny. Definition: to express their belief that the United States’ destiny was to expand to the Pacific. Other Causes for Expansion. Causes of American Expansion in 1830s/ 1840s Economic factors
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Manifest Destiny • Definition: to express their belief that the United States’ destiny was to expand to the Pacific
Other Causes for Expansion • Causes of American Expansion in 1830s/ 1840s • Economic factors • Exhaustion of good lands in the east • Effects of the Panic of 1837 • Psychological factors • manifest destiny
Market, Communication, Transportation Revolution • Market • People bought and sold goods, rather than making goods for themselves • Communication • People in better contact • Telegraph • Transportation • Steamboat • Canals • Trains developed in 1840s
New Markets Link Regions • Northeast • Shipping and Manufacturing • West • Farming cash crops: wheat and corn • South • Cash Crops: tobacco, cotton, rice Question: How does this link the regions?
Attractions • Attractive regions • east Texas, California, Oregon • Advertising the West • Santa Fe traders • Mountain men--fur trappers and traders
Problems with Natives in the West • Black Hawk War - 1832 • Natives lead by Chief Black Hawk rebelled in IA/IL • 200 Sauk and Fox killed by Illinois militia, rest forcibly moved West of MS river • Fort Laramie Treaty - 1851 • Occasional attacks by Natives lead to government intervention • Natives: control of central plains (400 mile land east of Rockies), annual payment from Gov. • Settlers: promise from natives would not attack Current location of the RoL. Brown - current reservation land; Orange - Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868; Yellow - Treaty of Fort Laramie 1851 (includes the Black Hills
Oregon • Expansionists urged seizure of Oregon from England • "54 40’ or Fight" became slogan • Oregon Treaty (1846) set boundary at 49th parallel
Oregon Trail • Not easy to follow • Trip often took months, even if all went well • Diseases • Lack of supplies and water • Trouble with natives upon arrival • Whitman Massacre – Native attack on Whitman Mission in Oregon Country