The Young Republic

1. The Young Republic Chapter 11

2. Exploring the West Chapter 11 Lesson 1

3. Immigrants and Pioneers • Immigrants came to: • Escape hard times • Earn money • Own land • The Cumberland Gap • A low place in the mountains • Main route pioneers took: • Wilderness road

4. Americans Continue West • New States • Kentucky • Tennessee • Ohio

5. The Louisiana Purchase • President of the United States • Thomas Jefferson • Problem he faced • There were no ports on the Gulf of Mexico • Very Big Purchase • April 30, 1803 • Bought Louisiana Territory from France • Doubled the size of the U.S.A

6. Lewis and Clark • Corps of Discovery • Set out from St. Louis Missouri • May 1804 William Clark Meriwether Lewis

7. Lewis and Clark • Expedition Succeeds • Reached Pacific Ocean • November 1805 • They would not have been successful without the help of Sacagawea • The expedition added to the knowledge about the lands of the west

8. Pike in the Southwest • Zebulon Pike explored the southwest portion of the Louisiana Purchase • Reported that Spanish territories needed manufactured goods • Americans traveled to the southwest to sell goods

9. Expanding Borders Chapter 11 Lesson 2

10. Troubles Grow • Pioneers often settled on lands belonging to Native Americans • Britain encouraged Native Americans to fight Americans • Conflicts with Britain • What angered Americans • Impressments of American sailors: forced American sailors off their ships and made them work on British ships

11. The War of 1812 • War between America and Britain • Important American victories • Battle of Lake Erie • Battle of the Thames • British Attacks on Cities • 1814 • Washington, D.C. • Baltimore • While being held prisoner by the British, Francis Scott Key wrote the “Star Spangled Banner”

12. The War of 1812 • The Growth of Nationalism • After the war ended in 1823 • Monroe Doctrine • United States would stop European nations from starting new colonies in the Western Hemisphere

13. Extending Democracy • Who could vote in 1828? • All white men • New President • Andrew Jackson • New Ideas • Jacksonian Democracy • Common man • Changing sense of democracy

14. The Indian Removal Act • Purpose • To take Cherokee lands • The Trail of Tears • When: 1838 • What happened: • Cherokees were forced by the U.S. Army to walk 800 miles through cold weather to the new Indian Territory • 1 out of 4 died on the journey, totalling deaths in the thousands • Almost all Native Americans were forced west of the Mississippi

15. From Ocean to Ocean Chapter 11 Lesson 3

16. Texas Independence • Americans in Texas • Angered by Texas government raising taxes • The Alamo • 1836 • Who won: Mexicans

17. The Lone Star Republic • April 21, 1836 • What happened: • Texas attacked and captured Mexican General Santa Anna • Result • Texas given independence • Added to the United States in 1845

18. Trails West • Oregon Trail • From Missouri to Oregon Country • Pioneers traveled in covered wagons and wagon trains • Mormon Trail • Mormon leader: Bringham Young • Route from Illinois to Great Salt Lake Valley

19. Expanding Borders • New conflicts over Oregon Country • Solution: American signed a treaty with Britain to set Oregon border

20. Expanding Borders • Mexican American War • Conflict between America and Mexico over southwestern lands • New Borders • Signed Treaty with Mexico setting Rio Grande as southern border • U.S.A. purchased Mexican Cession lands • U.S.A. purchased Gadsden lands

21. California Gold Rush • Forty-niners • People looking for gold came from around the world • Changing California • Population grew quickly • Became a state in 1850

22. New Ideas and Inventions • Chapter 11 Lesson 4

23. Transportation • National Road • Road that went across the Appalachians • Erie Canal • Linked the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean • Made New York a center for trade

24. Steamboats became the main way to travel on large rivers Railroads made it easier for people to travel and ship goods Steamboats and Railroads

25. Industrial Revolution • Began in 1800’s • It was a change to using machines for making large quantities of goods

26. Industrial Revolution • Mills in the North • Samuel Slater was a British mill worker • He built the first American textile mill • It marked the beginning of large-scale manufacturing in the United States

27. More Inventions • Eli Whitney • Invented the cotton gin • Changed plantation farming, now cotton could be prepared in less time • Invented interchangeable parts for guns • These are parts that are exactly alike • This invention made mass production possible • Large amounts of goods could be made at one time

28. More Inventions • Cyrus McCormick • Invented the mechanical reaper • Farmers could harvest wheat much faster

29. More Inventions • John Deere • Invented the strong steel plow • Cut through the heavy soil in the Midwest more quickly and easily

30. More Inventions • Samuel F.B. Morse • Invented the telegraph • It was a faster way to communicate • Invented Morse Code • Code system of dots and dashes used to communicate with the telegraph