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1825-1850

Ch. 9 Expanding Markets & Moving West. 1825-1850. 9:1 Market Revolution. 1. Samuel Morse 2. Specialization 3. Market Revolution 4 . Capitalism- economic system in which private businesses/individuals control means of production (like factories, land, machines) to earn profits.

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1825-1850

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  1. Ch. 9 Expanding Markets & Moving West 1825-1850

  2. 9:1 Market Revolution • 1. Samuel Morse • 2. Specialization • 3. Market Revolution • 4. Capitalism- economic system in which private businesses/individuals control means of production (like factories, land, machines) to earn profits.

  3. 5. entrepreneurs • 6. New Inventions: • Charles Goodyear 1839- • Elias Howe 1846- • Alex. Graham Bell- • Marconi- • John Deere- • Cyrus McCormick-

  4. SUMMARY: • Identify 2 inventions that enhanced people’s lives and explain how they fueled the country’s economic growth.

  5. 9:2 Manifest Destiny • 1. Manifest Destiny- phrase that expressed Americans belief that the U.S.’ destiny was to expand to the Pacific Ocean & into Mexican Territory. • This destiny was manifest (obvious).

  6. Oregon or Bust! • Americans were moving west : • Personal economic problems • Abundance of land was greatest attraction for farming or speculation 3. Santa Fe Trail-busiest, well-known trade route 780 miles from Independence Missouri to Santa Fe,NM

  7. 4. Oregon Trail- Independence, MO to Portland, OR……Methodist missionaries set up mission schools to convert Native Am. & Educate them. • See Conestoga wagons & life/death on Oregon trail p284

  8. Black Hawk Illinois Black Hawk War 1832 rebelled vs. U.S.- 200 slaughtered • Treaty of Fort Laramie

  9. 5. Mormons-religious group founded by Joseph Smith. Moved West due to protest against practice of polygamy- having more than one wife. Smith murdered in jail. • Brigham Young- led Mormons beyond US boundary to Salt Lake City, UT

  10. 6. “Fifty-four forty or fight” • James K. Polk slogan (1844) referred to 54’40 latitude line as northern limit of disputed OR. Terr. James Knox Polk

  11. SUMMARY: • Summarize reasons American settlers moved west during mid-1800’s • Describe the impact of westward expansion on Native Americans

  12. 9:3 Expansion in TX. • Obj: Explain why Mexico encouraged settlement in TX • 1. Stephen F. Austin • 2. Land grants • 3. Tensions grew when US settlers of cotton/sugar were bringing their slaves & MX had abolished slavery (1824)

  13. S.F. Austin met w/Antonio Lopez de SantaAnna • 4. G.T.T. • Alamo- • 7. Sam Houston- The Fall of the Alamo" by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk depicts Davy Crockett in a charge at the Mexican troops who have breached the walls of the mission.

  14. Sam Houston b/c President of this • Republic of TX • 8. 1838 S.Houston invites US to ANNEX -(incorporate) TX republic into the U.S. • 1844 TX becomes 28th state ……..Mexico is furious!....

  15. Summary: • Explain why Mexico encouraged settlement in TX territory • How did TX end up gaining its independence?

  16. 9:4 WAR with MEXICO • 1. John Slidell- • 2. Gen. Zachary Taylor • 3. Slave issue affected debate over war: • NORTH-opposed war (seeing it as a way to extend slavery to TX. • SOUTH-favored war for same reason

  17. 4. Pres. Polk provoked MX ? • 5. Winfield Scott • 6. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • Mexican Cession= • 7. Gadsden Purchase • 8. “forty-niners”

  18. Summary • Identify U.S. territories gained from Mexico • Explain the impact of the discovery of gold in CA on the development of the West

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