STAAR REVIEW: Westward Expansion

• Provided procedures for establishing territories & states
• 5000 free males of age to be a territory
• 60,000 free males to become a state

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Purchase of Alaska

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Oregon Trail

Northwest Ordinance

• created an orderly procedure for establishing territories and applying for statehood; needed to address competing claims to land west of the Appalachian Mountains

• AKA: Seward's Folly

  - signed treaty with Russia

  - later found gold and oil

• moving westward

  - James K. Polk

  - "From Sea to Shining Sea"

• Acquired Florida from Spain

  - John Q Adams (Secretary of State under Monroe)

  - 1819

Alaska Purchase

• created an orderly procedure for establishing territories and applying for statehood; needed to address competing claims to land west of the Appalachian Mountains

• AKA: Seward's Folly

  - signed treaty with Russia

  - later found gold and oil

• moving westward

  - James K. Polk

  - "From Sea to Shining Sea"

• Acquired Florida from Spain

  - John Q Adams (Secretary of State under Monroe)

  - 1819

Manifest Destiny

• created an orderly procedure for establishing territories and applying for statehood; needed to address competing claims to land west of the Appalachian Mountains

• AKA: Seward's Folly

  - signed treaty with Russia

  - later found gold and oil

• moving westward

  - James K. Polk

  - "From Sea to Shining Sea"

• Acquired Florida from Spain

  - John Q Adams (Secretary of State under Monroe)

  - 1819

Adams-Onis Treaty

• created an orderly procedure for establishing territories and applying for statehood; needed to address competing claims to land west of the Appalachian Mountains

• AKA: Seward's Folly

  - signed treaty with Russia

  - later found gold and oil

• moving westward

  - James K. Polk

  - "From Sea to Shining Sea"

• Acquired Florida from Spain

  - John Q Adams (Secretary of State under Monroe)

  - 1819

Louisiana Purchase

• • 1803
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • doubled the size of the US
  • $15 million
• • 1845
  • Texas joined the US
  • Mexico did not agree with the borders
• • 1853
  • $10 million
  • to put in railroad for train transport and avoid mountains
• • 1846; became official territory in 1848
  • limited Great Britain’s influence
  • “54°40’ or fight!!”
  • 49th parallel

Texas Annexation

• • 1803
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • doubled the size of the US
  • $15 million
• • 1845
  • Texas joined the US
  • Mexico did not agree with the borders
• • 1853
  • $10 million
  • to put in railroad for train transport and avoid mountains
• • 1846; became official territory in 1848
  • limited Great Britain’s influence
  • “54°40’ or fight!!”
  • 49th parallel

Gadsden's Purchase

• • 1803
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • doubled the size of the US
  • $15 million
• • 1845
  • Texas joined the US
  • Mexico did not agree with the borders
• • 1853
  • $10 million
  • to put in railroad for train transport and avoid mountains
• • 1846; became official territory in 1848
  • limited Great Britain’s influence
  • “54°40’ or fight!!”
  • 49th parallel

Oregon Territory

• • 1803
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • doubled the size of the US
  • $15 million
• • 1845
  • Texas joined the US
  • Mexico did not agree with the borders
• • 1853
  • $10 million
  • to put in railroad for train transport and avoid mountains
• • 1846; became official territory in 1848
  • limited Great Britain’s influence
  • “54°40’ or fight!!”
  • 49th parallel

Push/Pull Factor

• oppression from ones country leading to opportunity in another country

• sent to explore the Louisiana Purchase and gained help from Sacagawea, a Shoshone Indian

• 11th president that completed Manifest Destiny

• gained in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo; land from the Rio Grande to California; purchased for $15 million