America Moves West

Westward Expansion

• Ideas from the west started to trickle up east

• The idea of "suffrage" or the right to vote began to change

• In 1828 Andrew Jackson ran against John Quincy Adams

• Adams was highly educated and wealthy

• Jackson had not gone to college, had taught himself law, and was a military leader

• Jackson led the Democratic party, encouraging everyone, even "common people" to vote

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Jackson vs Adams

Open Ended

Why do you think people could relate to President Jackson?

Multiple Choice

What does suffrage mean?

• The right to vote

• It means someone is suffering

• The right to own land

Multiple Choice

What changed about voting in the 1820s

• Women were able to vote

• Native Americans were able to vote

• Men who did not own land were able to vote

The Railroad

●Early on railroads were simply horses
pulling a cart running along iron rails

●In 1830 Peter cooper built the first steam
powered locomotive

●As more railroads were constructed and
mapped out even more people began to
move west

●You could now take a train for a large part of your journey and travel by covered wagon the rest of the way

Multiple Choice

What effect did the railroad have on westward expansion?

• People stopped moving out west

• More and more people moved west

• It didn't change much

• People were afraid to ride the first railroad

Manifest Destiny

●The population in the US exploded
from around 5 million to 23 million by the 1840s

●The idea of “Manifest Destiny” was
spread by politicians and authors

●It was the idea that the US is destined by God to continue to expand and promote democracy

●This idea was used to justify the
removal of Native Americans from their land.

Multiple Choice

What is "Manifest Destiny"

• It described the huge amount of people moving west

• It described why people wanted to move south

• It was the idea the the US was destined by God to move west

• It was the idea that Native Americans deserved more land

The Oregon Trail

●By the 1840s the Oregon trail was the
most popular route to move west

●It ran from Missouri all the way into
Oregon

●Missionaries were the largest group to
travel the Oregon Trail

●The Great Migration of 1843

●About 1 in 10 people did not survive

●The popularity of the Oregon Trail died
down by the late 1860s as the first
transcontinental railroad was established

Multiple Choice

On average how many people did NOT survive the trip west?

• 2 in 5

• 1 in 10

• 3 in 20

• 5 in 10

Multiple Choice

What was the most popular route to travel in the 1840s?

• The Mississippi Trail

• The Missouri Trail

• The California Trail

• The Oregon Trail