westward expansion 1800 - 1850
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Westward Expansion 1800 - 1850. Unit 1. Manifest Destiny. The belief that the United States has a divine right to expand its territory. *John L. O’Sullivan coined the phrase. Thomas Jefferson. 3 rd President of the United States (1800 – 1808) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Westward Expansion1800 - 1850
Unit 1
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Manifest DestinyThe belief that the United States
has a divine right to expand its territory.
*John L. O’Sullivan coined the phrase
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Thomas Jefferson• 3rd President of the United
States (1800 – 1808)– Political philosopher,
horticulturist, architect, inventor and much more
– Louisiana Purchase (1803)– Lewis and Clark Expedition
(1804-1806)
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Louisiana Purchase
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The Louisiana Purchase 1803
• James Monroe and Robert Livingston buy the land for about 15 million.
3 cents an acre!
The purchase doubles the size of our country
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
Meriwether Lewis 1774-1809
William Clark 1770-1838
40 people went on trip
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Sacajawea• Husband – Touissant
Charonneau– Insists on bringing wife
and child• Tribe – Shoshone• Name – Bird woman
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Texas Independence
• 1836 -Texas declares its independence from Mexico.
• 1836 – 1845 Texas becomes a country (the Republic of Texas)
• 1845 Texas becomes a state
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Florida
• March 3rd 1845 Florida becomes a state
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Oregon Country
• In 1846 the U. S. makes an agreement with Great Britain to get the Oregon Country
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The Mexican War1846 - 1847
• disagreement of the Texas southern border, the Rio Grande River.
• Major General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City ending the war.
• The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ends the war and the U. S. gets the Mexican Cession.
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The Gadsden Purchase
• The U. S. paid Mexico 10 million dollars for a strip of land south of the Gila River in Arizona and New Mexico.
• route for a southern transcontinental railroad.
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