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Growth of the New Nation

Growth of the New Nation. US History, Unit 1 Mr. Peal. The new country Grows. …SIZE – the U.S. spreads to the Pacific Ocean …WEALTH ($)– factories, railways, cities …NUMBER OF PEOPLE (population) Including SLAVES …FREEDOM Women Slave. America Grows in size.

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Growth of the New Nation

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  1. Growth of the New Nation US History, Unit 1 Mr. Peal

  2. The new country Grows • …SIZE – the U.S. spreads to the Pacific Ocean • …WEALTH ($)– factories, railways, cities • …NUMBER OF PEOPLE (population) • Including SLAVES • …FREEDOM • Women • Slave

  3. America Grows in size • Louisiana Purchase, 1803 • Texas, 1845 • Oregon, 1846 • California, 1848 • Gadsden Purchase, 1853

  4. Louisiana Purchase, 1803 • Bought in 1803 from France • Doubled the size of the county • Explored by Merriwether Lewis and William Clark • Slow and dangerous • Cross the Rockies • Reached the Pacific

  5. Texas becomes a state • Was Spanish for 300 years • Settled by Americans because of… • Cotton • Cattle raising • Before long, more Americans than Texans • Conflicts: • Mexicans were Catholic, Texans were Protestants • Americans had slaves, Mexicans didn’t like slavery • War • 1836: Mexicans attacked a fort called Alamo and killed all the Americans • 1845-8: War with Mexico to make Texas a state

  6. Oregon • Oregon territory attracted families because of forests and farmland • Included parts of Canada, Idaho, Wyoming • Followed the Oregon Trail

  7. Gold discovered in California, 1848 • Where the 49ers got their name. • People came from Europe, China, and the east • California grew quickly. San Francisco became a city

  8. Indian Removal, 1830- • Indians were “removed” because Americans wanted their land after gold discovered in Georgia. • Congress and President Andrew Jackson made Indians in Georgia and other states live west of the Mississippi. • Americans felt superior…thought they had a mission

  9. Manifest Destiny Notice: Indians; what the figure has in her hand; types of transportation Painting by John Gast

  10. The U.S. economy grows • Definition • Causes • Effects

  11. Industrial Revolution • The Industrial Revolution was a change from • farming to factory work • From living in countries to living in cities • From hand-work to machine work • It began it England. It started in America when people like Samuel slaters built English-style factories in the U.S. • It required many new workers, a lot of money, and plentiful natural resources

  12. Impact of cotton factories • Cotton factories in England and America needed American cotton. • Slaves grew cotton. • As the need for cotton grew, • The demand for slaves grew • The demand for cotton land increased • The number of slaves increased from 700,000 in 1790 to 4 million in 1860. • Southern (cotton) states wanted to expand west. The South wanted new states to be slave trades.

  13. Industrial Revolution: Causes

  14. Industrial Revolution: Effects

  15. Growth: Population • Population growth • Migration • Growth of slave population

  16. Migration

  17. Opposition to Migrants

  18. GROWTH: FREEDOM • Abolitionism • Women’s suffrage

  19. Women’s Suffrage

  20. Freedom: Abolition

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