Westward Expansion

Westward Expansion

President Jefferson

successes and failures

Louisiana Purchase (success)

• HUGE chunk of land West of the Mississippi

• bought it from France

• Goal was to get New Orleans port for trade

Multiple Choice

Why did the Americans want the Louisiana territory?

• For control of the New Orlean ports

• To spy on the Spanish

• To control Haiti

• For gold and silver

Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Jefferson hired 2 ex-military commanders to explore the new purchase

• goal - find a way to the "other side" (Pacific Ocean)

• Sacagawea: A Shoshone woman who helped guide the explorers

• took 2 years and only 1 person died (thanks to Sacagawea)

Multiple Choice

Who was Sacagawea?

• A young slave who Lewis and Clark met in St. Louis

• A Shoshone woman who helped guide the explorers

• A mountain man who showed the explorers how to trap wild game

• An Indian chief who traded goods with Lewis and Clark

Laissez Faire (fail)

• means that the government should not run the economy

• fired all tax collectors and got rid of federal taxes

• pro - states have more power and the people don't have to pay as much taxes, creating a happier and more unified country

• con - federal income is down so the country would be in a bad position if war were to break out (which, or course, it did)

Multiple Choice

According to ____________________ the government should play a small role in the economic affairs of the country.

• Louisiana Purchase

• laissez-faire

• Judicial Review

Judicial Review (success)

• The authority of the Supreme Court to strike down unconstitutional laws.

• Established in the case of Marbury v. Madison

Multiple Choice

The Supreme Court has the right of ___________________________.

• judicial review

• laissez-faire

• Indian Removal Act

President Jackson

successes and failures

Paid off National Debt (success)

• Raised Tariffs (taxes on foreign goods)

• US was debt free for 1 year

Multiple Choice

How did President Jackson pay off the National Debt?

• Raised domestic Taxes

• Raised Tariffs

Indian Removal Act (FAIL)

• made a deal with 5 tribes in Southern US

• Why - because southern plantation owners wanted their land

• traded unsettled land in the Louisiana Territory for their traditional land

Trail of Tears (FAIL)

• the forceful moving of the 5 tribes do to the Indian Removal Act

• took several years A LOT of people died

Multiple Select

________________ was the removal of Native Americans who lived in the Southern United States.

• Trail of Tears

• Indian Removal Act

Manifest Destiny

The belief of early Americans that they were supposed to settle the West (it was God's will).

Mexican American War

• Mexico and US fight over a chunk of land (southwest)

• US wins with the help of the Texans (new state that had previously belonged to Mexico)

• Point of the war was to gain more land (Manifest Destiny)

Multiple Choice

Why did the U.S. and Mexico go to war?

• To fulfill Manifest Destiny

• They disagreed over the border

Trails West

• Oregon Trail: main trail through the Louisiana Territory (from Missouri to Oregon)

• California Trail: split off the Oregon Trail used during the Gold Rush

• Mormon Trail: Mormons traveling West running from 1st Amendment violations

• Santa Fe Trail: unlike the other trails this was for trade

Multiple Choice

What basic 1st Amendment right was not protected by officials where the Mormons were persecuted?

• Freedom of Speech

• Freedom of Press

• Freedom of Assembly

• Freedom of Religion

Gold Rush

• someone finds Gold in the new territory won by the Mexican American War

• more than 300,000 people move to California in search of Gold

• the bulk of prospectors moved during 1849 leading to the term "forty-niners"

• Few people made it rich

Multiple Choice

Most people became wealthy during the Gold Rush.

• True

• False

Timeline

Know the order of events during this time.