Zusammenfassung der Ressource
THE EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
- In 1800, the United States did not look the way it does now. It was smaller.
- The first big step in Westward Expansion was the Louisiana Purchase.
- The President, Thomas Jefferson, bought
828,000 square miles of land from France.
This land, called the Louisiana Territory,
was just west of the United States.
- In 1848, America bought the Oregon territory from England.
- In 1890, the US government
announced that the west had
been explored.
- • The population of the United
States grew from 5.2 million
people in 1800 to 76.2 million in
1900.
- ACTIVITY
- SS will go to their digital books and answer some
open question about the United States and its
expansion (page number 3 ”the expansion of the
United States”)
- The ss will explain in their own words what
what the expansion of the United States, then
they will go to Nearpod and develop a
worksheet about The territorial expansion of
this country, the answers will be shared in
class.
- https://app.wizer.me/preview/M1F8UZ