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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| you're pretty ugly | yeah that's right I'm taylor swift
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