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.