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Manifest Destiny and Territorial Expansion

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Florida   Was received from Spain by a treaty.  
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Louisiana Purchase   Was sold to the US by France.  
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Oregon Territory   Was received from England by a treaty.  
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Louisiana Purchase   Jefferson bought land from France (the Louisiana Purchase).  
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Jefferson made the US how much bigger?   doubled the size of the United States.  
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In the Lewis and Clark expedition   explored the Louisiana Purchase.  
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Lewis and Clark went from   the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.  
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Florida   Spain gave this to the United States through a treaty.  
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Texas   was added after it became an independent republic.  
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The Oregon Territory   was divided by the United States and Great Britain.  
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California and the southwest territory   War with Mexico resulted in this becoming part of the United States.  
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Geographic and economic factors   that influenced westward movement  
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Population growth in the   eastern states  
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Availability of what kind of land?   cheap, fertile land Fertile = Able to be farmed  
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gold   Reason to go to California  
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Cheaper and faster transportation,   e.g., rivers and canals (Erie Canal), steamboats  
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Knowledge of overland trails   (Oregon and Santa Fe)  
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Belief in the right of “Manifest Destiny”   The idea that expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the country.  
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The cotton gin was invented by   Eli Whitney.  
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Whitney's Cotton Gin   increased the production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton.  
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Jo Anderson (a slave) and Cyrus McCormick   worked to invent the reaper.  
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The reaper increased   the productivity of the American farmer.  
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The steamboat was improved by   Robert Fulton.  
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Fulton's steamboat   provided faster river transportation that connected Southern plantations and farms to Northern industries and Western territories.  
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The steam locomotive   provided faster land transportation.  
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Most abolitionists demanded   immediate freeing of the slaves.  
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Abolitionists believed that   slavery was wrong.  
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A violation of the principles of democracy   Declaration of Independence: “All Men are Created Equal!!!”  
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Abolitionist leaders included   Harriet Tubman, William, Lloyd Garrison & Frederick Douglass  
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Suffragists   declared that “All men and women are created equal.”  
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Suffragists believed that   women were deprived of basic rights.  
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The Suffragists movement was led by   Isabel Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton  
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