westward and sectionalism stimulus

Document 1

… There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere [before] long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance.…

Source: President Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Robert Livingston, 1802

Question- Based on document 1, why would the acquisition of New Orleans be significant to the United States? 

• New Orleans was owned by France before the Louisiana Purchase 

• New Orleans connected the United States to Spanish Mexico

• The United States needed the Port of New Orleans to transport produce

•  France would no longer be an American enemy 

The Louisiana Purchase led to a turning point in history because

• The Louisiana Purchase allowed the United States to defeat France in a war 

• The Louisiana Purchase tripled the American population

• The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States and accelerated its westward expansion

• The Louisiana Purchase led to an alliance between France and the United States

Document 1

… There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere [before] long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance.…

Source: President Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Robert Livingston, 1802

Question- A historian would find document 1 most useful for

• Studying President Jefferson’s motivations for making the Louisiana Purchase 

• Studying Robert Livingston’s motivations for making the Louisiana Purchase 

• Proving President Jefferson did not believe in expansion of executive powers 

• Proving the French government did not want to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States

The following is an excerpt from a speech expressing what came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine, delivered by President James Monroe in his seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823.

We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those [European] powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.

James Monroe, Address to Congress, 1823

Question-   Which statement best expresses the purpose of President Monroe’s speech?

• to declare war against European powers who have intervened in the Western hemisphere

• to strengthen alliances with European powers to suppress independence movements in the Western hemisphere

• to warn European powers not to interfere with independence movements in their former colonies in the Western hemisphere

• to gather support from Congress members for war with Europe

 Native Americans were moved to Indian Territories depicted in the map partially because

• of Westward expansion into the Ohio River Valley by American settlers 

• A drought in the southeast United States caused migration by Native Americans

• President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 

• In Worcester v. Georgia the Supreme Court sided with President Jackson

Based on this map, what was one effect of the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

• Native Americans were forced from their tribal lands to Indian territories in the west 

• All of the Seneca population was wiped out by a migration known as the Trail of Tears 

• Native American tribes had to share tribal lands with American settlers 

• Native American tribes spread out to settle in many more states than prior to the Indian Removal Act 

…I have no motive, my friends, to deceive you. I am sincerely desirous to promote your welfare. Listen to me, therefore, while I tell you that you cannot remain where you now are. Circumstances that cannot be controlled, and which are beyond the reach of human laws, render it impossible that you can flourish in the midst of a civilized community. You have but one remedy within your reach. And that is, to remove to the West and join your countrymen, who are already established there. And the sooner you do this the sooner you will commence your career of improvement and prosperity….

Source: President Andrew Jackson, 1835

Question - Which group of people was President Jackson addressing? 

• African Americans

• Asian Americans 

• Mexican Americans 

• Native Americans

…I have no motive, my friends, to deceive you. I am sincerely desirous to promote your welfare. Listen to me, therefore, while I tell you that you cannot remain where you now are. Circumstances that cannot be controlled, and which are beyond the reach of human laws, render it impossible that you can flourish in the midst of a civilized community. You have but one remedy within your reach. And that is, to remove to the West and join your countrymen, who are already established there. And the sooner you do this the sooner you will commence your career of improvement and prosperity….

Source: President Andrew Jackson, 1835 

Question-Which statement best describes President Jackson's purpose in this excerpt? 

• To tell Native Americans why they must leave their tribal lands for Indian territories 

• To tell Native Americans to vote in favor of the Indian Removal Act

• To tell Americans they can now settle on former Native American tribal lands 

• To tell Native Americans that they are now American citizens

Which of the following events influenced the changes in cotton production and slavery in the United States between 1800 and 1860 illustrated in the graphs above?

• Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin 

• The three-fifths compromise in the Constitution

• The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by Congress

• Erie Canal was completed in 1825 

Based on these graphs, what is one relationship between cotton production and the growth of slavery between 1800 and 1860?

• The number of slaves in the United States increased as cotton production grew 

• The amount of cotton produced in the United States decreased as the number of slaves increased 

• The number of slaves in the United States did not change much over time

• The amount of cotton produced in the United States changed more than the number of slaves in the United States