Zusammenfassung der Ressource
WESTWARD EXPANSION TEST
- MISSOURI COMPROMISE
- a law that created
the 36*30' line that
separated the free
states from the
slave states
- CA breaks this law
- unjust and starts
the civil war
because
northerners rebel
- TRAIL OF TEARS
- 5 tribes
- CHEROKEE
- thought of as
the most
obedient tribe
- last to leave the US
- 4,000 died
- the trail that
native
americans had
to travel to get
from the US
past the
Mississippi
river
- COMPROMISE OF 1850
- fugitive slave law
- a law that said that any
american who saw a free
slave could return them
to slavery if they saw fit
- CA is free
- creates north and
south tension
because it crosses
the 36*30' line
- NORTH AND
SOUTH TENSION
- when TX joins
the US no one
knows who will
get the land
- L&C EXPEDITION
- GOALS
- to find hidden
passageway that
leads to the
ocean
- to make maps and
write down
different species
that they find in the
west
- H.D. THOREAU
- CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
- the act of breaking a law
you think is unruly or unjust
without hurting anyone in
the process
- goes out into the forest
- STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
- written by Andrew Jackson
- native americans were "children" and not smart
- couldn't decide
things for
themselves
- native americans new "father" and protector
- MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR
- americans thought
it was their
"manifest destiny"
- Mexico let the US
inhabit part of TX
making people
believe that they
should own TX
- tried to buy TX but didn't work
- WAR
- MANIFEST DESTINY
- people thought that God
wanted them to expand the US
and bring technology
everywhere even if that meant
killing people
- made people
buy the West
and go to war
with Mexico